[Qgis-community-team] wheee, sphinx templates translatable...

[Richard Duivenvoorde]

tl;dr newer versions of Sphinx take the templates into account for 
translating.

After a lot of googling and fiddling with Ninja and Sphinx, I finally 
found a message somewhere that 'it should just work', so apparently I/we 
was/were using an older version of Sphinx.

The good news: if you install sphinx via pip (eg in a virtual 
environment) 'sphinx-build -b gettext' just picks up all strings in your 
template files which are properly formatted (see
http://jinja.pocoo.org/docs/extensions/#i18n-extension )
eg: {{ gettext('Hello World!') }}
This will then end up in a sphinx.po in our locale dirs, and can be 
translated.

There are apparently other problems (Paolo? meta tags), but for me this 
is a huge step forward :-)


Regards,

Richard