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# Module ical

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Class that manages iCalender files for translation

# Implementation

iCalendar files follow the RFC2445 specification.

The iCalendar specification uses the following naming conventions:

- Component: an event, journal entry, timezone, etc
- Property: a property of a component: summary, description, start time, etc
- Attribute: an attribute of a property, e.g. language

The following are localisable in this implementation:

- VEVENT component: SUMMARY, DESCRIPTION, COMMENT and LOCATION properties

While other items could be localised this is not seen as important until use cases arise. In such a case simply adjusting the component.name and property.name lists to include these will allow expanded localisation.

## LANGUAGE Attribute

While the iCalendar format allows items to have a language attribute this is not used. The reason being that for most of the items that we localise they are only allowed to occur zero or once. Thus 'summary' would ideally be present in multiple languages in one file, the format does not allow such multiple entries. This is unfortunate as it prevents the creation of a single multilingual iCalendar file.

# Future Format Support

As this format used vobject which supports various formats including vCard it is possible to expand this format to understand those if needed.

Classes | [hide private]
| icalunit An ical entry that is translatable
| icalfile An ical file

Imports: base, StringIO, re, vobject