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<h1 class="heading"><span>Jinja</span></h1>
<h2 class="subheading">Internationalization</h2>
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<h2>Navigation</h2>
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<li><a href="index.html">back to index</a></li>
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<h2>Contents</h2>
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<li><a href="#writing-a-translator">Writing A Translator</a></li>
<li><a href="#translator-factory">Translator Factory</a></li>
<li><a href="#collecting-translations">Collecting Translations</a></li>
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<p>Jinja includes support for internationalized templates. Because usually the
application includes i18n/l10n code too there is no script to collect
translatable strings and no default translation interface. A simple
implementation wouldn't fit into every application so there are a few things
you have to do.</p>
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<h2><a id="writing-a-translator" name="writing-a-translator">Writing A Translator</a></h2>
<p>The most important thing is writing a translator and subclassing the
Environment so that Jinja knows about the translator. Then you have to
think of how to resolve the current language. You probably use Jinja in a
multithreaded environment where each thread (request) might want to have
a different language. The best way is putting the current language into
the context, this can work automatically if you create a helper function
for template rendering. But that's up to you.</p>
<p>However. For many web applications this might be a way:</p>
<div class="syntax"><pre><span class="k">from</span> <span class="nn">jinja</span> <span class="k">import</span> <span class="n">Environment</span>
<span class="k">from</span> <span class="nn">myapplication</span> <span class="k">import</span> <span class="n">get_translator</span>
<span class="k">class</span> <span class="nc">ApplicationTranslator</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="nb">object</span><span class="p">):</span>
<span class="k">def</span> <span class="nf">__init__</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="bp">self</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">language</span><span class="p">):</span>
<span class="bp">self</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">language</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">language</span>
<span class="bp">self</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">translator</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">get_translator</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">language</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="k">def</span> <span class="nf">gettext</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="bp">self</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">string</span><span class="p">):</span>
<span class="k">return</span> <span class="bp">self</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">translator</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">ugettext</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">string</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="k">def</span> <span class="nf">ngettext</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="bp">self</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">singular</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">plural</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">n</span><span class="p">):</span>
<span class="k">return</span> <span class="bp">self</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">translator</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">ungettext</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">singuarl</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">plural</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">n</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="k">class</span> <span class="nc">ApplicationEnvironment</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">Environment</span><span class="p">):</span>
<span class="k">def</span> <span class="nf">get_translator</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="bp">self</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">context</span><span class="p">):</span>
<span class="k">return</span> <span class="n">ApplicationTranslator</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">context</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="s">'LANGUAGE'</span><span class="p">])</span>
<span class="n">env</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">ApplicationEnvironment</span><span class="p">()</span>
<span class="n">tmpl</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">env</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">get_template</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s">'index.html'</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">tmpl</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">render</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">LANGUAGE</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s">'de_DE'</span><span class="p">)</span>
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<p>This example assumes that you use gettext and have a gettext <cite>Translations</cite>
object which is returned by the <cite>get_translator</cite> function. But you don't
have to use gettext. The only thing Jinja requires is an object with to
functions/methods on it that return and accept unicode strings:
<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">gettext(string)</span></tt> that takes a string, translates and returns it, a
<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">ngettext(singular,</span> <span class="pre">plural,</span> <span class="pre">count)</span></tt> function that returns the correct plural
form for <cite>count</cite> items. Because some languages have no or multiple plural
forms this is necessary.</p>
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<h2><a id="translator-factory" name="translator-factory">Translator Factory</a></h2>
<p>With Jinja 1.2 onwards it's possible to use a translator factory
instead of an enviornment subclass to create a translator for a context.
A translator factory is passed a context and has to return a translator.
Because of the way classes work you can also assign a translator class
that takes a context object as only argument as factory.</p>
<p>Example:</p>
<div class="syntax"><pre><span class="k">from</span> <span class="nn">jinja</span> <span class="k">import</span> <span class="n">Environment</span>
<span class="k">from</span> <span class="nn">myapplication</span> <span class="k">import</span> <span class="n">get_translator</span>
<span class="k">def</span> <span class="nf">translator_factory</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">context</span><span class="p">):</span>
<span class="k">return</span> <span class="n">get_translator</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">context</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="s">'LANGUAGE'</span><span class="p">])</span>
<span class="n">env</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">ApplicationEnvironment</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">translator_factory</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="n">translator_factory</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">tmpl</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">env</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">get_template</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s">'index.html'</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">tmpl</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">render</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">LANGUAGE</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s">'de_DE'</span><span class="p">)</span>
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<p>This example assumes that the translator returned by <cite>get_translator</cite>
already has a gettext and ngettext function that returns unicode strings.</p>
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<h2><a id="collecting-translations" name="collecting-translations">Collecting Translations</a></h2>
<p>The next step is to collect the translations. Every Jinja environment
provides a function called <cite>get_translations</cite> which collects all
translatable strings from an template.</p>
<p>Example:</p>
<div class="syntax"><pre><span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="n">env</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">get_translations</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s">'index.html'</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="go">[(1, u'foo', None), (2, u'Foo', None), (3, u'%(count)s Foo', u'%(count)s Foos')]</span>
</pre></div>
<p>The first item in the tuple is the linenumer, the second one is the
singular form and the third is the plural form if given.</p>
<p>Because Jinja is not bound to gettext you can now use these strings to
create translation files for any translation system.</p>
<p><em>New in Jinja 1.1</em> You can now extract translations from strings according
to the current envrionment settings too by using the environment method
<cite>get_translations_for_string</cite> which takes a string containing a template
as only argument. The return value is the same as for <cite>get_translations</cite>.</p>
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