Glib equivalent of `textdomain()` and `bindtextdomain()`

Question

I am adding I18N support to some Python code that uses GLib-based interface to the rest of the application. For consistency with the rest of the application I want to use GLib's gettext implementation/wrapper.

I import the GLib API with:

import gi
from gi.repository import GLib

However, if I see some *gettext() functions in the library (dcgettext, dgettext, dngettext, dpgettext, dpgettext2) I cannot find the equivalent of textdomain()and bindtextdomain().

Am I missing something?

Answer 1

GLib doesn't have its own implementation of gettext. It definitely uses it though for translation and -especially on the C side- provides useful wrappers for it.

When using GTK on Python, that means you would normally do to call bindtextdomain(): you use the Python-provided locale module. If Python was built without gettext support, you'll have to import the gettext module

import gettext
import locale

try:
    locale.bindtextdomain(app_id, locale_dir)
    locale.textdomain(app_id)
except AttributeError as e:
    # Python built without gettext support does not have
    # bindtextdomain() and textdomain().
    gettext.bindtextdomain(app_id, locale_dir)
    gettext.textdomain(app_id)