Support Kurdish by hard-coding the language name

Closes kobotoolbox#1178

kobo/settings.py

@@ -14,13 +14,14 @@
 import subprocess
 
 from django.conf import global_settings
-from django.conf.global_settings import LANGUAGES as _available_langs
 from django.conf.global_settings import LOGIN_URL
 from django.utils.translation import get_language_info
 import dj_database_url
 
 from pymongo import MongoClient
 
+from static_lists import NATIVE_LANGUAGE_NAMES
+
 
 # Build paths inside the project like this: os.path.join(BASE_DIR, ...)
 BASE_DIR = os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(__file__)))
@@ -147,10 +148,23 @@
 # Internationalization
 # https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.8/topics/i18n/
 
-
-_available_langs = dict(_available_langs)
-LANGUAGES = [(lang_code, get_language_info(lang_code)['name_local'])
-             for lang_code in os.environ.get('DJANGO_LANGUAGE_CODES', 'en').split(' ')]
+def get_native_language_name(lang_code):
+    try:
+        return get_language_info(lang_code)['name_local']
+    except KeyError:
+        pass
+    try:
+        return NATIVE_LANGUAGE_NAMES[lang_code]
+    except KeyError:
+        raise KeyError(u'Please add an entry for {} to '
+                       u'kobo.static_lists.NATIVE_LANGUAGE_NAMES and try '
+                       u'again.'.format(lang_code))
+
+LANGUAGES = [
+    (lang_code, get_native_language_name(lang_code))
+        for lang_code in os.environ.get(
+            'DJANGO_LANGUAGE_CODES', 'en').split(' ')
+]
 
 LANGUAGE_CODE = 'en-us'
 

kobo/static_lists.py

@@ -1,9 +1,6 @@
 from django.utils.translation import ugettext_lazy as _
 
-'''
-This file is a place to store static, translatable lists (or tuples!). Choice
-lists for registration fields were the original application.
-'''
+# This file is a place to store static, translatable strings
 
 SECTORS = (
     # (value, human-readable label)
@@ -34,26 +31,23 @@
     ("Other", _("Other")),
 )
 
-'''
-You might generate such a list of countries with code like this:
-
-    from __future__ import print_function
-    import requests
-    import sys
-
-    url = 'https://www.humanitarianresponse.info/api/v1.0/locations?filter[admin_level]=0'
-    while url:
-        print('Fetching', url, file=sys.stderr)
-        response = requests.get(url)
-        j = response.json()
-        if 'next' in j:
-            url = j['next']['href']
-        else:
-            url = None
-        for d in j['data']:
-            print("({}, _({}))".format(repr(d['iso3']), repr(d['label'])))
-'''
-
+# You might generate such a list of countries with code like this:
+#
+#     from __future__ import print_function
+#     import requests
+#     import sys
+#
+#     url = 'https://www.humanitarianresponse.info/api/v1.0/locations?filter[admin_level]=0'
+#     while url:
+#         print('Fetching', url, file=sys.stderr)
+#         response = requests.get(url)
+#         j = response.json()
+#         if 'next' in j:
+#             url = j['next']['href']
+#         else:
+#             url = None
+#         for d in j['data']:
+#             print("({}, _({}))".format(repr(d['iso3']), repr(d['label'])))
 COUNTRIES = (
     # (value, human-readable label)
     (u'AFG', _(u'Afghanistan')),
@@ -308,19 +302,17 @@
     (u'ZWE', _(u'Zimbabwe')),
 )
 
-'''
-You might generate such a list of languages with code like this:
-
-    import requests
-    url = 'http://loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/ISO-639-2_utf-8.txt'
-    response = requests.get(url)
-    for line in response.iter_lines():
-        # Wow, the LOC does not specify an encoding in the response!
-        line = line.decode(response.apparent_encoding)
-        fields = line.strip().split('|')
-        if fields[2]:
-            print '({}, _({})),'.format(repr(fields[2]), repr(fields[3]))
-'''
+# You might generate such a list of languages with code like this:
+#
+#     import requests
+#     url = 'http://loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/ISO-639-2_utf-8.txt'
+#     response = requests.get(url)
+#     for line in response.iter_lines():
+#         # Wow, the LOC does not specify an encoding in the response!
+#         line = line.decode(response.apparent_encoding)
+#         fields = line.strip().split('|')
+#         if fields[2]:
+#             print '({}, _({})),'.format(repr(fields[2]), repr(fields[3]))
 LANGUAGES = (
     # (value, human-readable label)
     (u'aa', _(u'Afar')),
@@ -508,3 +500,10 @@
     (u'za', _(u'Zhuang; Chuang')),
     (u'zu', _(u'Zulu')),
 )
+
+# Django itself does not support all languages, so we cannot always rely upon
+# `django.utils.translation.get_language_info()` to provide native language
+# names for our translations
+NATIVE_LANGUAGE_NAMES = {
+    u'ku': u'\u0643\u0648\u0631\u062f\u06cc',
+}