Partially revert sphinx-docGH-9778

CHANGES

@@ -97,8 +97,6 @@ Bugs fixed
 * #11192: Restore correct parallel search index building.
   Patch by Jeremy Maitin-Shepard
 * Use the new Transifex ``tx`` client
-* #9778: Disable localisation when the ``SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH`` environment
-  variable is set, to assist with 'reproducible builds'. Patch by James Addison
 
 Testing
 --------

sphinx/builders/html/__init__.py

@@ -502,7 +502,7 @@ def prepare_writing(self, docnames: set[str]) -> None:
         # typically doesn't include the time of day
         lufmt = self.config.html_last_updated_fmt
         if lufmt is not None:
-            self.last_updated = format_date(lufmt or str(_('%b %d, %Y')),
+            self.last_updated = format_date(lufmt or _('%b %d, %Y'),
                                             language=self.config.language)
         else:
             self.last_updated = None

sphinx/builders/latex/__init__.py

@@ -179,7 +179,7 @@ def init_context(self) -> None:
         if self.config.today:
             self.context['date'] = self.config.today
         else:
-            self.context['date'] = format_date(self.config.today_fmt or str(_('%b %d, %Y')),
+            self.context['date'] = format_date(self.config.today_fmt or _('%b %d, %Y'),
                                                language=self.config.language)
 
         if self.config.latex_logo:

sphinx/domains/std.py

@@ -242,9 +242,9 @@ def add_target_and_index(self, firstname: str, sig: str, signode: desc_signature
 
         # create an index entry
         if currprogram:
-            descr = str(_('%s command line option') % currprogram)
+            descr = _('%s command line option') % currprogram
         else:
-            descr = str(_('command line option'))
+            descr = _('command line option')
         for option in signode.get('allnames', []):
             entry = '; '.join([descr, option])
             self.indexnode['entries'].append(('pair', entry, signode['ids'][0], '', None))

sphinx/locale/__init__.py

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 
 import locale
 from gettext import NullTranslations, translation
-from os import getenv, path
+from os import path
 from typing import Any, Callable
 
 
@@ -105,22 +105,10 @@ def init(
     if translator.__class__ is NullTranslations:
         translator = None
 
-    if getenv('SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH') is not None:
-        # Disable localization during reproducible source builds
-        # See https://reproducible-builds.org/docs/source-date-epoch/
-        #
-        # Note: Providing an empty/none value to gettext.translation causes
-        # it to consult various language-related environment variables to find
-        # locale(s).  We don't want that during a reproducible build; we want
-        # to run through the same code path, but to return NullTranslations.
-        #
-        # To achieve that, specify the ISO-639-3 'undetermined' language code,
-        # which should not match any translation catalogs.
-        languages: list[str] | None = ['und']
-    elif language:
+    if language:
         if '_' in language:
             # for language having country code (like "de_AT")
-            languages = [language, language.split('_')[0]]
+            languages: list[str] | None = [language, language.split('_')[0]]
         else:
             languages = [language]
     else:
@@ -203,7 +191,12 @@ def setup(app):
     .. versionadded:: 1.8
     """
     def gettext(message: str) -> str:
-        return _TranslationProxy(catalog, namespace, message)  # type: ignore[return-value]
+        if not is_translator_registered(catalog, namespace):
+            # not initialized yet
+            return _TranslationProxy(catalog, namespace, message)  # type: ignore[return-value]  # noqa: E501
+        else:
+            translator = get_translator(catalog, namespace)
+            return translator.gettext(message)
 
     return gettext
 

sphinx/transforms/__init__.py

@@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ def apply(self, **kwargs: Any) -> None:
                 text = self.config[refname]
                 if refname == 'today' and not text:
                     # special handling: can also specify a strftime format
-                    text = format_date(self.config.today_fmt or str(_('%b %d, %Y')),
+                    text = format_date(self.config.today_fmt or _('%b %d, %Y'),
                                        language=self.config.language)
                 ref.replace_self(nodes.Text(text))
 

sphinx/writers/manpage.py

@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ def __init__(self, document: nodes.document, builder: Builder) -> None:
         if self.config.today:
             self._docinfo['date'] = self.config.today
         else:
-            self._docinfo['date'] = format_date(self.config.today_fmt or str(_('%b %d, %Y')),
+            self._docinfo['date'] = format_date(self.config.today_fmt or _('%b %d, %Y'),
                                                 language=self.config.language)
         self._docinfo['copyright'] = self.config.copyright
         self._docinfo['version'] = self.config.version

sphinx/writers/texinfo.py

@@ -220,7 +220,7 @@ def init_settings(self) -> None:
             'project': self.escape(self.config.project),
             'copyright': self.escape(self.config.copyright),
             'date': self.escape(self.config.today or
-                                format_date(self.config.today_fmt or str(_('%b %d, %Y')),
+                                format_date(self.config.today_fmt or _('%b %d, %Y'),
                                             language=self.config.language)),
         })
         # title

sphinx/writers/text.py

@@ -791,8 +791,8 @@ def visit_acks(self, node: Element) -> None:
 
     def visit_image(self, node: Element) -> None:
         if 'alt' in node.attributes:
-            self.add_text(str(_('[image: %s]') % node['alt']))
-        self.add_text(str(_('[image]')))
+            self.add_text(_('[image: %s]') % node['alt'])
+        self.add_text(_('[image]'))
         raise nodes.SkipNode
 
     def visit_transition(self, node: Element) -> None: