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      1  #!/usr/bin/env python
      2  # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
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     21
     22  """This module contains all the common features for languages.
     23
     24     Supported features
     25     ==================
     26       - language code (km, af)
     27       - language name (Khmer, Afrikaans)
     28       - Plurals
     29         - Number of plurals (nplurals)
     30         - Plural equation
     31       - pofilter tests to ignore
     32
     33     Segmentation
     34     ------------
     35       - characters
     36       - words
     37       - sentences
     38
     39     TODOs and Ideas for possible features
     40     =====================================
     41       - Language-Team information
     42       - Segmentation
     43         - phrases
     44
     45     Punctuation
     46     -----------
     47       - End of sentence
     48       - Start of sentence
     49       - Middle of sentence
     50       - Quotes
     51         - single
     52         - double
     53
     54       - Valid characters
     55       - Accelerator characters
     56       - Special characters
     57       - Direction (rtl or ltr)
     58  """
     59
     60  import re
     61
     62  from translate.lang import data
     63
     64
     65 -class Common(object):
     66      """This class is the common parent class for all language classes."""
     67
     68      code = ""
     69      """The ISO 639 language code, possibly with a country specifier or other
     70      modifier.
     71
     72      Examples::
     73          km
     74          pt_BR
     75          sr_YU@Latn
     76      """
     77
     78      fullname = ""
     79      """The full (English) name of this language.
     80
     81         Dialect codes should have the form of
     82           - Khmer
     83           - Portugese (Brazil)
     84           - TODO: sr_YU@Latn?
     85      """
     86
     87      nplurals = 0
     88      """The number of plural forms of this language.
     89
     90      0 is not a valid value - it must be overridden.
     91      Any positive integer is valid (it should probably be between 1 and 6)
     92      @see: L{data}
     93      """
     94
     95      pluralequation = "0"
     96      """The plural equation for selection of plural forms.
     97
     98      This is used for PO files to fill into the header.
     99      @see: U{Gettext manual<http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/html_node/gettext_150.html#Plural-forms>}
    100      @see: L{data}
    101      """
    102      # Don't change these defaults of nplurals or pluralequation willy-nilly:
    103      # some code probably depends on these for unrecognised languages
    104
    105      listseperator = u", "
    106      """This string is used to separate lists of textual elements. Most
    107      languages probably can stick with the default comma, but Arabic and some
    108      Asian languages might want to override this."""
    109
    110      commonpunc = u".,;:!?-@#$%^*_()[]{}/\\'`\"<>"
    111      """These punctuation marks are common in English and most languages that
    112      use latin script."""
    113
    114      quotes = u"‘’‛“”„‟′″‴‵‶‷‹›«»"
    115      """These are different quotation marks used by various languages."""
    116
    117      invertedpunc = u"¿¡"
    118      """Inveted punctuation sometimes used at the beginning of sentences in
    119      Spanish, Asturian, Galician, and Catalan."""
    120
    121      rtlpunc = u"،؟؛÷"
    122      """These punctuation marks are used by Arabic and Persian, for example."""
    123
    124      CJKpunc = u"。、，；！？「」『』【】"
    125      """These punctuation marks are used in certain circumstances with CJK
    126      languages."""
    127
    128      indicpunc = u"।॥॰"
    129      """These punctuation marks are used by several Indic languages."""
    130
    131      ethiopicpunc = u"።፤፣"
    132      """These punctuation marks are used by several Ethiopic languages."""
    133
    134      miscpunc = u"…±°¹²³·©®×£¥€"
    135      """The middle dot (·) is used by Greek and Georgian."""
    136
    137      punctuation = u"".join([commonpunc, quotes, invertedpunc, rtlpunc, CJKpunc,\
    138              indicpunc, ethiopicpunc, miscpunc])
    139      """We include many types of punctuation here, simply since this is only
    140      meant to determine if something is punctuation. Hopefully we catch some
    141      languages which might not be represented with modules. Most languages won't
    142      need to override this."""
    143
    144      sentenceend = u".!?…։؟।。！？።"
    145      """These marks can indicate a sentence end. Once again we try to account
    146      for many languages. Most langauges won't need to override this."""
    147
    148      #The following tries to account for a lot of things. For the best idea of
    149      #what works, see test_common.py. We try to ignore abbreviations, for
    150      #example, by checking that the following sentence doesn't start with lower
    151      #case or numbers.
    152      sentencere = re.compile(r"""(?s)    #make . also match newlines
    153                              .*?         #anything, but match non-greedy
    154                              [%s]        #the puntuation for sentence ending
    155                              \s+         #the spacing after the puntuation
    156                              (?=[^a-z\d])#lookahead that next part starts with caps
    157                              """ % sentenceend, re.VERBOSE)
    158
    159      puncdict = {}
    160      """A dictionary of punctuation transformation rules that can be used by
    161      punctranslate()."""
    162
    163      ignoretests = []
    164      """List of pofilter tests for this language that must be ignored."""
    165
    166      checker = None
    167      """A language specific checker (see filters.checks).
    168
    169      This doesn't need to be supplied, but will be used if it exists."""
    170
    171      _languages = {}
    172
    173      validaccel = None
    174      """Characters that can be used as accelerators (access keys) i.e. Alt+X
    175      where X is the accelerator.  These can include combining diacritics as
    176      long as they are accessible from the users keyboard in a single keystroke,
    177      but normally they would be at least precomposed characters. All characters,
    178      lower and upper, are included in the list."""
    179
    180      validdoublewords = []
    181      """Some languages allow double words in certain cases.  This is a dictionary
    182      of such words."""
    183
    184 -    def __new__(cls, code):
    185          """This returns the language class for the given code, following a
    186          singleton like approach (only one object per language)."""
    187          code = code or ""
    188          # First see if a language object for this code already exists
    189          if code in cls._languages:
    190              return cls._languages[code]
    191          # No existing language. Let's build a new one and keep a copy
    192          language = cls._languages[code] = object.__new__(cls)
    193
    194          language.code = code
    195          while code:
    196              langdata = data.languages.get(code, None)
    197              if langdata:
    198                  language.fullname, language.nplurals, language.pluralequation = langdata
    199                  break
    200              code = data.simplercode(code)
    201          if not code:
    202  #            print >> sys.stderr, "Warning: No information found about language code %s" % code
    203              pass
    204          return language
    205
    206 -    def __deepcopy__(self, memo={}):
    207          memo[id(self)] = self
    208          return self
    209
    210 -    def __repr__(self):
    211          """Give a simple string representation without address information to
    212          be able to store it in text for comparison later."""
    213          detail = ""
    214          if self.code:
    215              detail = "(%s)" % self.code
    216          return "<class 'translate.lang.common.Common%s'>" % detail
    217
    218 -    def punctranslate(cls, text):
    219          """Converts the punctuation in a string according to the rules of the
    220          language."""
    221  #        TODO: look at po::escapeforpo() for performance idea
    222          if not text:
    223              return text
    224          ellipses_end = text.endswith(u"...")
    225          if ellipses_end:
    226              text = text[:-3]
    227          for source, target in cls.puncdict.iteritems():
    228              text = text.replace(source, target)
    229          if ellipses_end:
    230              if u"..." in cls.puncdict:
    231                  text += cls.puncdict[u"..."]
    232              else:
    233                  text += u"..."
    234          # Let's account for cases where a punctuation symbol plus a space is
    235          # replaced, but the space won't exist at the end of the source message.
    236          # As a simple improvement for messages ending in ellipses (...), we
    237          # test that the last character is different from the second last
    238          # This is only relevant if the string has two characters or more
    239          if (text[-1] + u" " in cls.puncdict) and (len(text) < 2 or text[-2] != text[-1]):
    240              text = text[:-1] + cls.puncdict[text[-1] + u" "].rstrip()
    241          return text
    242      punctranslate = classmethod(punctranslate)
    243
    244 -    def length_difference(cls, length):
    245          """Returns an estimate to a likely change in length relative to an
    246          English string of length length."""
    247          # This is just a rudimentary heuristic guessing that most translations
    248          # will be somewhat longer than the source language
    249          expansion_factor = 0
    250          code = cls.code
    251          while code:
    252              expansion_factor = data.expansion_factors.get(cls.code, 0)
    253              if expansion_factor:
    254                  break
    255              code = data.simplercode(code)
    256          else:
    257              expansion_factor = 0.1 # default
    258          constant = max(5, int(40*expansion_factor))
    259          # The default: return 5 + length/10
    260          return constant + int(expansion_factor * length)
    261      length_difference = classmethod(length_difference)
    262
    263 -    def alter_length(cls, text):
    264          """Converts the given string by adding or removing characters as an
    265          estimation of translation length (with English assumed as source
    266          language)."""
    267
    268          def alter_it(text):
    269              l = len(text)
    270              if l > 9:
    271                  extra = cls.length_difference(l)
    272                  if extra > 0:
    273                      text = text[:extra].replace(u'\n', u'') + text
    274                  else:
    275                      text = text[-extra:]
    276              return text
    277          expanded = []
    278          for subtext in text.split(u"\n\n"):
    279              expanded.append(alter_it(subtext))
    280          text = u"\n\n".join(expanded)
    281          return text
    282      alter_length = classmethod(alter_length)
    283
    284 -    def character_iter(cls, text):
    285          """Returns an iterator over the characters in text."""
    286          #We don't return more than one consecutive whitespace character
    287          prev = 'A'
    288          for c in text:
    289              if c.isspace() and prev.isspace():
    290                  continue
    291              prev = c
    292              if not (c in cls.punctuation):
    293                  yield c
    294      character_iter = classmethod(character_iter)
    295
    296 -    def characters(cls, text):
    297          """Returns a list of characters in text."""
    298          return [c for c in cls.character_iter(text)]
    299      characters = classmethod(characters)
    300
    301 -    def word_iter(cls, text):
    302          """Returns an iterator over the words in text."""
    303          #TODO: Consider replacing puctuation with space before split()
    304          for w in text.split():
    305              word = w.strip(cls.punctuation)
    306              if word:
    307                  yield word
    308      word_iter = classmethod(word_iter)
    309
    310 -    def words(cls, text):
    311          """Returns a list of words in text."""
    312          return [w for w in cls.word_iter(text)]
    313      words = classmethod(words)
    314
    315 -    def sentence_iter(cls, text, strip=True):
    316          """Returns an iterator over the sentences in text."""
    317          lastmatch = 0
    318          text = text or ""
    319          for item in cls.sentencere.finditer(text):
    320              lastmatch = item.end()
    321              sentence = item.group()
    322              if strip:
    323                  sentence = sentence.strip()
    324              if sentence:
    325                  yield sentence
    326          remainder = text[lastmatch:]
    327          if strip:
    328              remainder = remainder.strip()
    329          if remainder:
    330              yield remainder
    331      sentence_iter = classmethod(sentence_iter)
    332
    333 -    def sentences(cls, text, strip=True):
    334          """Returns a list of senteces in text."""
    335          return [s for s in cls.sentence_iter(text, strip=strip)]
    336      sentences = classmethod(sentences)
    337
    338 -    def capsstart(cls, text):
    339          """Determines whether the text starts with a capital letter."""
    340          stripped = text.lstrip().lstrip(cls.punctuation)
    341          return stripped and stripped[0].isupper()
    342      capsstart = classmethod(capsstart)
    343