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

import os, sys, gettext


TRANSLATION_DOMAIN = u'debreate'
LOCALE_DIR = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(__file__)), u'locale')

gettext.install(TRANSLATION_DOMAIN, LOCALE_DIR, unicode=True)

if sys.version_info[0] < 3:
    ## Ensure gettext 
    #  
    #  This is a workaround for Python 2
    #  \param str_value
    #        \b \e unicode|str : String to be converted to unicode & translated
    def GT(str_value):
        str_value = unicode(str_value)
        return _(str_value)

else:
    GT = _