Translating my plugin?

[silentguy]

Hi!
I've written an oyo plugin a while ago to manage covers and I got bored today so I thought I'd try to figure out if there's a way to add a german translation to the plugin, seeing how it's mostly used in germany.
I see how you mark strings as translatable but I'm not sure if there is any ability in place to add to the existing translation list, so I thought I'd just ask.
Is there?

[kovidgoyal]

No, translations only work with code that is part of the calibre codebase.

You can easily check the value of the users interface language and use the appropriate strings yourself.

from calibre.utils.localization import get_lang

[silentguy]

Thanks, that worked fine, but now I have an encoding problem. I want to use äöü in my plugin text, but I have not found the proper setting yet. If I leave it encoded as ANSI it tells me I did not declare the proper encoding (I don't know where) and if I save it as UTF8 without BOM it loads but does not display the umlauts correctly.

[silentguy]

Okay, I found out how to declare encoding, but it's still wonky. It seems the plugin config dialog does not display utf8. So I encoded it as ISO-8859-1, which works for me, but if other ppl install it via plugin installation, the umlauts get killed again, it seems like there is an automatic utf8 conversion or something.
I just rephrased the two sentences I had, but I thought I should at least mention it

[kovidgoyal]

You should escape non ascii strings, to be safe. So the string äöü becomes u'\xe4\xf6\xfc'.

Or if you want to use unescaped strings, use a coding declaration, like

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-