plover.i18n – Internationalization

This module provides helpers for translating strings throughout the Plover UI, based on the gettext library. See Internationalization for more information on implementing internationalization.

class plover.i18n.Translator(package: str, resource_dir: str = 'messages', lang: str = None)

A helper class for translating strings in the UI.

An instance of this class is available as plover._.

Translators can also be called directly; _(...) is synonymous with _.gettext(...).

lang: str

The ISO 639 code for the language of this translator. Setting this causes the translator to load translation catalogs for the specified language, falling back on other languages if possible.

gettext(message: str) → str

Returns the translated version of the given message. See the documentation for gettext.gettext for more information.

ngettext(singular: str, plural: str, n: int) → str

A version of gettext() that takes plural forms into account. See the documentation for gettext.ngettext for more information.

_(message: str) → str

Marks a string for translation without translating it.

plover.i18n.get_language() → str

Returns the ISO 639 code for the language that the user interface should use.

Plover’s interface language can be set with environment variables, or derived from the system default locale. If the LANGUAGE environment variable is defined, this is automatically considered the interface language; if not, LC_ALL, LC_MESSAGES and LANG are also checked on Linux and BSD platforms. Otherwise, the system default locale is used, defaulting to English (en).

For testing purposes during development, using the LANGUAGE environment variable is recommended.