[gnue] r7134 - trunk/gnue-common/src/apps

[reinhard]

Author: reinhard
Date: 2005-03-08 14:57:01 -0600 (Tue, 08 Mar 2005)
New Revision: 7134

Modified:
   trunk/gnue-common/src/apps/i18n.py
Log:
Updated a few comments.


Modified: trunk/gnue-common/src/apps/i18n.py
===================================================================
--- trunk/gnue-common/src/apps/i18n.py  2005-03-08 20:50:53 UTC (rev 7133)
+++ trunk/gnue-common/src/apps/i18n.py  2005-03-08 20:57:01 UTC (rev 7134)
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@
 
 from gnue import paths
 
+
 # -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # Global variables
 # -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -64,6 +65,7 @@
         __modules [filename] = mod
         return mod
 
+
 # -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # Find the correct translation catalog
 # -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -100,6 +102,7 @@
 
     return catalog
 
+
 # -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # Translate a message and return unicode
 # -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -116,6 +119,7 @@
 
   return catalog.ugettext (message)
 
+
 # -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # Translate a message and return local encoding
 # -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -133,6 +137,7 @@
 
   return (catalog.ugettext (message)).encode (encoding, enc_policy)
 
+
 # -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # Convert Unicode to String, let everything else untouched. This is o().
 # -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -154,7 +159,8 @@
 
 def getencoding ():
   """
-  This function returns the encoding of the currently active locale
+  This function returns the encoding of the currently active locale. This can
+  be changed with setcurrentlocale.
   @returns: encoding of the current locale
   """
   # For Windows, getlocale () is broken - it returns e.g. ('Hungarian_Hungary',
@@ -173,7 +179,8 @@
 
 def getlanguage ():
   """
-  This function return the language of the currently acitve locale
+  This function return the language of the currently acitve locale. This can be
+  changed with setcurrentlocale.
   @returns: language of the current locale
   """
   return __userlanguage or 'C'
@@ -185,7 +192,9 @@
 
 def getuserlocale ():
   """
-  This function tries to find out which locale the user is using.
+  This function tries to find out which locale the user is using. This is
+  always the locale of the user running the program and is not touched by
+  setcurrentlocale.
   @returns: localestring of the user's locale, i.e. address@hidden
   """