Add a large number of new localized strings

.gitignore

@@ -41,10 +41,14 @@ pytest.xml
 # doit
 .doit.*
 
+# localization intermediate files
+*.po
+
 # venv
 site-packages
 
 # local
 tabcmd-dev
 workon
 test.junit.xml
+*.out

bin/i18n/msgfmt.py

@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
 #! /usr/bin/env python3
 # Written by Martin v. Löwis <loewis@informatik.hu-berlin.de>
-
-""" Updated to handle utf-8 files and give better error messages
+""" 
+Fetched from https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/main/Tools/i18n/msgfmt.py
+Updated to handle utf-8 files and give better error messages
 TODO contribute back?
 """
 

bin/i18n/prop2po.py

@@ -5,44 +5,51 @@
 """
 
 import click
-
+from datetime import datetime
 
 @click.command()
 @click.argument('source', type=click.File('rt', encoding='utf-8'))
 @click.argument('destination', type=click.File('wt', encoding='utf-8'))
 @click.option('-l', '--language', type=click.STRING, help='The translation language')
 @click.option('-p', '--project', type=click.STRING, help='The name of the project')
 @click.option('-e', '--encoding', type=click.STRING, help='The encoding wanted')
-def to_po(source, destination, encoding, language, project):
+@click.option('-c', '--copyright', type=click.STRING, help='The person/organization holding copyright')
+def to_po(source, destination, encoding, language, project, copyright):
     """Converts a property file to a Gettext PO file.
 
     SOURCE is the path of the property file to convert.
 
     DESTINATION is the path of the Gettext PO file to create
     """
-
+    year = datetime.now().strftime('%Y')
     header = """msgid ""
 msgstr ""
-"MIME-Version: 1.0\\n"
-"Content-Type: text/plain; charset={encoding}\\n"
+"MIME-Version: 1.0\\n\\n"
+"Content-Type: text/plain; charset={encoding}\\n\\n"
 "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\\n"
 "X-Generator: prop2po\\n"
 "Project-Id-Version: {project}\\n"
 "Language: {language}\\n"
- # Copyright (C) YEAR Tableau Software 
- """
+# Copyright (C) {year} {copyright} 
+"""
+
     lines = source.readlines()
-    print(lines)
     destination.write(header.format(
         language=language,
         project=project,
-        encoding=encoding
+        encoding=encoding,
+        year=year,
+        copyright=copyright
     ))
     for line in lines:
         if not line.isspace():
-            parts = line.split('=')
+            # Split only on the first instance of '=' so that the character can also appear in the string
+            parts = line.split('=', 1)
             # TODO it fails on comments/lines with less than two parts after splitting
-            destination.write('#:\n' + 'msgid "' + parts[0] + '"\n' 'msgstr "' + parts[1][:-1] + '"\n\n')
+            try:
+                destination.write('#:\n' + 'msgid "' + parts[0] + '"\n' 'msgstr "' + parts[1][:-1] + '"\n\n')
+            except IndexError as e:
+                print("FAILED on line{}".format(line))
 
 
 if __name__ == '__main__':

contributing.md

@@ -113,12 +113,15 @@ _(note that running mypy and black with no errors is required before code will b
 > You can only build an executable for the platform you are running pyinstaller on. The spec for each platform is stored in tabcmd-*platform*.spec and the exact build commands for each platform can be checked in [our packaging script](.github/workflows//package.yml).
 
 e.g for Windows
-> pyinstaller tabcmd-windows.spec --clean --noconfirm --distpath ./dist/windows
+> pyinstaller tabcmd-windows.spec --clean --distpath .\dist\windows
 
-produces dist/tabcmd.exe
+produces dist\windows\tabcmd.exe
 To run the newly created executable, from a console window in the same directory as the file tabcmd.py:
 
-> dist/tabcmd/tabcmd.exe --help
+> dist\windows\tabcmd.exe --help
+> dist\windows\tabcmd.exe publish --country FR --language FR cookie.twbx
+
+To investigate what's packaged in the executable, use https://pyinstxtractor-web.netlify.app/
 
 
 
@@ -128,7 +131,9 @@ Strings are stored in /tabcmd/locales/[language]/*.properties by id and referred
 > string = _("string.id")
 
 For runtime execution these files must be converted from .properties -> .po -> .mo files. These .mo files will be bundled in the the package by pyinstaller. The entire conversion action is done by a .doit script:
-> doit mo
+> doit properties po mo
+You can also check that there are no malformed/forgotten message keys in the code with 
+> doit strings
 
 ### Versioning