Code review comment for lp://staging/~thomas-e-zander/exaile/artist_strip

Rather than

+ default_list = ["el", "l'", "la", "le", "les", "los", "the"]
+ try:
+ (loc, enc) = getlocale()
+ if loc is None:
+ (loc, enc) = getdefaultlocale()
+ #TRANSLATORS: Alter default_list to appropriate content
+ if loc == 'de_DE':
+ default_list.extend(["der", "die", "das"])

I'd prefer it to be a translatable string that translators can override completely. Something like

  #TRANSLATORS: ...
  default_list = _("the ")

A translator can then translate that, e.g.

  "the" --> "le ;l';les "

This way, on locales where this kind of stripping doesn't make sense at all, it can be translated as

  "the" --> ""