hatch-msgfmt

A hatch msgfmt plugin, simply replacing all po files with mo files, using msgfmt in PATH.

At a future point, a pure-python version could be implemented, by implementing a pure-Python version of msgfmt. The standard cpython msgfmt.py could be a starting point for this, but it's not as capable as GNU Gettext, and doesn't support plural forms. Even with a fresh implementation, handling the file encoding from the header is challenging, especially for variable-length encodings like EUC-JP, which could feasibly cause particular problems.

Better to just use the system one for now. If somebody wants to submit a pure-python implementation that functions, I'll gladly integrate it as a separate msgfmtpy plugin in the same repository.

Config parameters

• locales: The location of the source .po files.

• destination: The location of the destination .mo files. They will be put into this location in the same structure as the source tree relative to the locales path.

• pathsub_regex (optional): An input regex to match against source files for name changes.

• pathsub_replace (required if pathsub_regex is present): An replacement pattern to use for name changes.

Copyright

This plugin is Copyright 2023 Absolute Performance, Inc. with contributions by Adrián Chaves.

MIT licensed.