[pygtk] Translating application

[Pietro Battiston]

Il giorno mar, 20/10/2009 alle 16.08 +0200, Timo List ha scritto:
> Hello all,
> 
> my application is being translated to the default language at startup
> with this code:
> 
>         try:
>             locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, '')
>         except:
>             pass
> 
>         for module in (gettext, gtk.glade):
>             module.bindtextdomain(APP_NAME, LOCALE_PATH)
>             module.textdomain(APP_NAME)
> 
> There is only 1 computer I found this not working on. So for this
> person and for others who just want a different language, I want to
> add an option to change it.
> 
> The problem is that if I want to set the locale during runtime, I get
> the locale exception (locale.Error).
> How can this be done?

The fact that the only app I know allowing to freely choose locale,
gretl, obliges you to restart to see changes suggests me you just can't.
But I may certainly be wrong.

Pietro