Writing liferea plugins tutorial part 5

This tutorial part is about how to localize core Python plugins so contributors can translate the user interface.

Enable gettext for Python Plugins

For a good plugin example have a look at the Liferea plugins headerbar.py where Robbie Cooper added gettext support. To do so add this code in global scope:

# Initialize translations for tooltips
# Fallback to English if gettext module can't find the translations
# (That's possible if they are installed in a nontraditional dir)
import gettext
_ = lambda x: x
try:
    t = gettext.translation("liferea")
except FileNotFoundError:
    pass
else:
    _ = t.gettext

And now everywhere you need it you can use translated literals, e.g.

button.set_tooltip_text(_("Previous Item"))

Note the _() style which is the gettext wrapper to replace text with translations.

Also check out the previous plugin tutorial posts

Plugin Tutorial Part 1 (Plugin Boiler Plate)
Plugin Tutorial Part 2 (Acessing and modify UI elements)
Plugin Tutorial Part 3 (Adding menu elements)
Plugin Tutorial Part 4 (Using GTK inspector)
Plugin Tutorial Part 5 (Enabling translations for plugins)

Enable gettext for Python Plugins

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