Screw debugging ... prefer the ctypes approach to get rid of yet another c-module.

2 files changed, 10 insertions, 23 deletions

diff --git a/portato/gui/windows/basic.py b/portato/gui/windows/basic.py
index 46e345e..3cedd69 100644
--- a/portato/gui/windows/basic.py
+++ b/portato/gui/windows/basic.py
@@ -20,13 +20,18 @@ from functools import wraps
 import os.path
 
 from ...constants import TEMPLATE_DIR, APP, LOCALE_DIR
-from ...helper import error, debug
+from ...helper import error
 
 # for the GtkBuilder to translate correctly :)
-from . import gettext
-old_charset = gettext.set_gtk_gettext(APP, LOCALE_DIR)
-debug("Changed from old charset '%s' to UTF-8.", old_charset)
-del old_charset
+import ctypes
+try:
+    getlib = ctypes.cdll.LoadLibrary("libgettextlib.so")
+except OSError:
+    error("'libgettextlib.so' cannot be loaded. Might be, that there are no translations available in the GUI.")
+else:
+    getlib.textdomain(APP)
+    getlib.bindtextdomain(APP, LOCALE_DIR)
+    getlib.bind_textdomain_codeset(APP, "UTF-8")
 
 class WrappedTree (object):
     __slots__ = ("klass", "tree", "get_widget", "get_ui")
diff --git a/portato/gui/windows/gettext.pyx b/portato/gui/windows/gettext.pyx
deleted file mode 100644
index c8174e8..0000000
--- a/portato/gui/windows/gettext.pyx
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,18 +0,0 @@
-cdef extern from "langinfo.h":
-    char* nl_langinfo (int item)
-    cdef enum:
-        CODESET
-
-cdef extern from "libintl.h":
-    char * textdomain (char* domain)
-    char * bindtextdomain (char* domain, char* dir)
-    char * bind_textdomain_codeset (char* domain, char* codeset)
-
-def set_gtk_gettext (char* domain, char* dir):
-    textdomain(domain)
-    bindtextdomain(domain, dir)
-
-    old_charset = nl_langinfo(CODESET)
-    bind_textdomain_codeset(domain, "UTF-8")
-
-    return old_charset