My Plone doesn't show translated msgids located in a locales directory !!
In a project I'm currently working on, I have written a product following the new way of writing Plone products: creating an egg and putting its translations in a locales directory.
After translating the msgids, creating the po files and reading once and again the Maurits' post although I'm on Plone 2.5, I was seeing always the same translated strings, always in the language my browser was configured in, no matter I changed the language using Plone's language selector.
After googling a bit, I found this Five and i18n tutorial in which Phillip says:
The goal of the sprint was to allow both fallback translation services (PTS, Localizer) and Zope 3 translation domains come to the same conclusion regarding which language should be chosen. The use case is that you have a site running Localizer or PTS and a bunch of "old" products using either one of those for translation. Now you have an additional, "new" Five-based product using Zope 3 translation domains. Most of the time, a page contains user messages from more than one domain, so you would all domains be translated to the same language.
So, I just have to add an overrides.zcml file to my product (and load it in my buildout), with the following content:
<adapter
for="zope.publisher.interfaces.http.IHTTPRequest"
provides="zope.i18n.interfaces.IUserPreferredLanguages"
factory="Products.Five.i18n.PTSLanguages"
/>
Now, Five and Zope3 components of my Plone site, negotiate the language just like PTS does, so I have correctly translated msgids in my site.
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