Rails - Jan 2006 - GetText: Works with en_GB and en_US, but doesn''t with de_DE!

Hi all

I''m trying to get GetText to work. I have the following folder 
structure:

  |-myapp.pot
  |-de_DE/:
  |    `-myapp.po
  |-en_GB/:
  |    `-myapp.po
  |-en_US/:
  `    `-myapp.po

I run rake updatepo, and then rake makemo.

Now I set en-gb as default language in Firefox and run my app >> works!
Then I set en-us as default language in Firefox and run my app >> works, 
too!
Last but not least I set de-de as default language in Firefox and run my 
app >> Failure!

 NoMethodError in Member#register

You have a nil object when you didn''t expect it!
The error occured while evaluating nil.unpack

-----------------------------------
RAILS_ROOT: script/../config/..
Application Trace | Framework Trace | Full Trace

/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/gettext-1.1.0/lib/gettext/mo.rb:66:in 
`load_from_stream''
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/gettext-1.1.0/lib/gettext/mo.rb:229:in 
`load_from_file''
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/gettext-1.1.0/lib/gettext/mo.rb:229:in 
`open''
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/gettext-1.1.0/lib/gettext/mo.rb:229:in 
`load_from_file''
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/gettext-1.1.0/lib/gettext/mo.rb:38:in
`open''
...
...
-----------------------------------

What''s the problem?? I just don''t get it to work... Any help
is very
appreciated. :-)

Btw. how can I set a default language, so if the default language of the 
browser is not supported it displays the page e.g. in german?

Thanks a lot.
Josh

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OK I just found out, that when I set "Arabic/Qatar" (ar-qa) as default
language then the app works well and displays the stuff that I have 
written originally in the rhtml files with the _() function.
So when a language is not supported, then it displays me this default 
stuff, right?

So far, so good - the de_DE still does not work... :-/

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Hi,

On Wed, 11 Jan 2006 14:11:15 +0100
Joshua Muheim <forum@josh.ch> wrote:
> OK I just found out, that when I set "Arabic/Qatar" (ar-qa) as
default
> language then the app works well and displays the stuff that I have 
> written originally in the rhtml files with the _() function.
> So when a language is not supported, then it displays me this default 
> stuff, right?
Right.
 
> So far, so good - the de_DE still does not work... :-/
Send me your whole application, if you can.

I''ll investigate it.

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> Send me your whole application, if you can.
> 
> I''ll investigate it.
Thanks. Where can I send it to?

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Hi,

On Wed, 11 Jan 2006 14:40:58 +0100
Joshua Muheim <forum@josh.ch> wrote:
> > Send me your whole application, if you can.
> > 
> > I''ll investigate it.
> 
> Thanks. Where can I send it to?
To me. mutoh@highway.ne.jp.

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> Now I set en-gb as default language in Firefox and run my app >>
works!
> Then I set en-us as default language in Firefox and run my app >>
works,
> too!
> Last but not least I set de-de as default language in Firefox and run my 
> app >> Failure!
I had similar problem but I didn''t get any error message so your
problem
might be different. Anyway make sure that your server has de_DE locales 
installed. Check this with "locale -a" command, if not then install 
them. There is no info about this at Ruby gettext page.

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Hi,

On Thu, 9 Feb 2006 13:57:07 +0100
Grzegorz Daniluk <daniluk@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Now I set en-gb as default language in Firefox and run my app >>
works!
> > Then I set en-us as default language in Firefox and run my app
>> works,
> > too!
> > Last but not least I set de-de as default language in Firefox and run
my
> > app >> Failure!
> 
> I had similar problem but I didn''t get any error message so your
problem
> might be different. Anyway make sure that your server has de_DE locales 
> installed. Check this with "locale -a" command, if not then
install
> them. There is no info about this at Ruby gettext page.
Ruby-GetText-Package doesn''t depend on the system locale.
If you have a translated po file in po/#{lang}/ correctly,
it will be shown the language even if your server doesn''t support your
locale.

Anyway, I investigated his program ... 
And in his case, he didn''t translate po/de_DE/hisapp.po, 
so English was shown ;)

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> Ruby-GetText-Package doesn''t depend on the system locale.
> If you have a translated po file in po/#{lang}/ correctly,
> it will be shown the language even if your server doesn''t support
your
> locale.
OK I understand. I guess that there is something wrong with my gettext 
package configuration. Please look below, I execute the hello.rb 
example:

greg@gdcomp:~/tmp/samples$ ls locale/
cs  de  el  es  fr  it  ja  ko  nl  pt_BR  sv

greg@gdcomp:~/tmp/samples$ LC_ALL=de_DE.utf8 ruby hello.rb
Hallo Welt
greg@gdcomp:~/tmp/samples$ LC_ALL=ko_KR.utf8 ruby hello.rb
Hello World
greg@gdcomp:~/tmp/samples$ LC_ALL=sv_SE.utf8 ruby hello.rb
Hello World
greg@gdcomp:~/tmp/samples$ LC_ALL=sv_FI.utf8 ruby hello.rb
Hello World
greg@gdcomp:~/tmp/samples$ LC_ALL=cs_CZ.utf8 ruby hello.rb
Ahoj Sv?te

greg@gdcomp:~/tmp/samples$ locale -a
C
cs_CZ.utf8
de_DE.utf8
en_US.utf8
es_ES.utf8
fr_FR.utf8
hu_HU.utf8
it_IT.utf8
ja_JP.utf8
pl_PL.utf8
POSIX
pt_PT.utf8
ru_RU.utf8
zh_CN.utf8

after adding ko_KR.UTF-8 UTF-8 to /etc/locale.gen and executing 
locale-gen (Ubuntu 5.10 linux disto)
greg@gdcomp:~/tmp/samples$ LC_ALL=ko_KR.utf8 ruby hello.rb
?? ??

Works. I guess that there is a different way of changing a lang to use 
by hello example.

Regards,
GD

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Hi,

On Thu, 9 Feb 2006 14:47:48 +0100
Grzegorz Daniluk <daniluk@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Ruby-GetText-Package doesn''t depend on the system locale.
> > If you have a translated po file in po/#{lang}/ correctly,
> > it will be shown the language even if your server doesn''t
support your
> > locale.
> 
> OK I understand. I guess that there is something wrong with my gettext 
> package configuration. Please look below, I execute the hello.rb 
<snip>
> Works. I guess that there is a different way of changing a lang to use 
> by hello example.
Ah, I see. 

Ruby-GetText-Package depends on system locale if you use it on the console.

But "gettext/rails" doesn''t depend on system locale.
#Because the information is from the www browser(not server side).

Here is Rails ML, so I answered the behavior of it on Rails.

P.S.
If you''re interested in it, check gettext/cgi.rb.
And the url below may help you:
http://www.yotabanana.com/hiki/ruby-gettext-howto-cgi.html#How+to+get+the+locale+information+from+WWW+browser

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