v2

syncplay/ass2messages.py

@@ -1,59 +1,49 @@
 # coding:utf8
-
+#
 # ass2messages.py,   dictionary to subtitle exporter to automate translation
-# author sosie-js
+# version 2.0
-# require my pythonfx mofied version adding fixes and del_line facility
+# author sosie-js - sos-productions.com
 #==========================================
 
-# For relative imports to work
+# For relative imports to work, to use my  pythonfx mofied version adding fixes and del_line facility
 import os, sys; sys.path.append(os.path.dirname(os.path.realpath(__file__)))
 from pyonfx import *
 
-# will include message_en.py a dictiatary of English messages for the syncplay gui
+#message_en.py  hold the original English messages we translte from  for the syncplay gui
 # https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Syncplay/syncplay/master/syncplay/messages_en.py
+# this will serves aslo as a template to generate dict_message_file
 import messages_en
+messages=messages_en.en
 
-
+#here is the only param for this script,  the target language, it requires the ass file ass_message_file, holding the translated messages
+# we use messages2ass.py on messages_en.py to generate messages_en.ass and then we fastrad it with google translate/deepl ... 
+#to have it in the targetted language
 lang="fr"
+
+#----------------------------------------------------------
 dict_message_file="messages_"+lang
 ass_message_file=dict_message_file+".ass"
 dict_message_file=dict_message_file+".py"
 print("Welcome on the ass file %s  to %s dictionary to exporter" % (dict_message_file,ass_message_file) )
 print("-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------")
- 
+
+#Generate translations dictionary from the translated messages provided by ass_message_file 
+
 io = Ass(ass_message_file) 
 meta, styles, lines = io.get_data()
 
-#messages will hold the message dict
-messages=messages_en.en
-i=len(lines)
-pos_time=0
-
-
 dict={}
-#the fist line of Untitled.ass, empty, will serve as template
 for line in lines:
     dict[str(line.effect)]=str(line.raw_text)
 
-
 script_dir=os.path.dirname(os.path.realpath(__file__))
 path_input=os.path.join(script_dir,"messages_en.py")
 input = open(path_input, "r", encoding="utf-8-sig")
 template=input.read()
 input.close()
 
-note='# This file was mainly auto generated from ass2messages.py applied on '+ass_message_file+' to get these messages\n'
-note+='# its format has been harmonized, values are always stored in doublequotes strings, \n'
-note+='# if double quoted string in the value then they should be esacaped like this \\". There is\n'
-note+='# thus no reason to have single quoted strings. Tabs \\t and newlines \\n need also to be escaped.\n' 
-note+='# whith ass2messages.py which handles these issues, this is no more a nightmare to handle. \n'
-note+='# I fixed partially messages_en.py serving as template. an entry should be added in messages.py:\n'
-note+='# "'+lang+'": messages_'+lang+'.'+lang+',  . Produced by sosie - sos-productions.com\n\n'
-
-
-template=template.replace('en = {',note+lang+' = {')
-
 #Normalize space (and quotes!), launch the cleaner machine
+
 template=template.replace('":  "','": "')
 template=template.replace('":  \'','": \'')
 
@@ -64,10 +54,27 @@ def escapeBackslashAndTabs(s):
 
 def escapeDoublequotes(s):
     s = s.replace('"', '\\"')
+    return s     
+
+def decodeHTMLEntities(s):
+    s = s.replace(">", ">")
+    s = s.replace("&","&")
     return s      
+    
+#Now fill the template
+
+note='# This file was mainly auto generated from ass2messages.py applied on '+ass_message_file+' to get these messages\n'
+note+='# its format has been harmonized, values are always stored in doublequotes strings, \n'
+note+='# if double quoted string in the value then they should be esacaped like this \\". There is\n'
+note+='# thus no reason to have single quoted strings. Tabs \\t and newlines \\n need also to be escaped.\n' 
+note+='# whith ass2messages.py which handles these issues, this is no more a nightmare to handle. \n'
+note+='# I fixed partially messages_en.py serving as template. an entry should be added in messages.py:\n'
+note+='# "'+lang+'": messages_'+lang+'.'+lang+',  . Produced by sosie - sos-productions.com\n\n'
+
+template=template.replace('en = {',note+lang+' = {')
 
 for key, value in messages.items():
-    value=value.replace("&","&")
+    value=decodeHTMLEntities(value)
     if(key == "LANGUAGE"):
         language=value
     source=('"%s": "%s"' % (key, escapeBackslashAndTabs(value)))
@@ -77,8 +84,11 @@ for key, value in messages.items():
     source=('"%s": \'%s\'' % (key, escapeBackslashAndTabs(value)))
     target=('"%s": "%s"' % (key,escapeDoublequotes(dict[key])))
     template=template.replace(source,target)
+    
+#this line does nothing, I don't know why :(
 template=template.replace('English dictionary',language+' dictionary')
 
+# Save it as .ass file
 path_output=os.path.join(script_dir,dict_message_file)
 with open(path_output,"w") as f:
     f.write(template)