Fix #6640: i18n: Failed to override system message translation

Our document describes that users can override system messages via
their own message catalog named `sphinx.mo` under the locale_dirs.
But it has not been used since its beginning of i18n mechanism because
the priority of users' message catalog is lower than system's.

This makes the priority of users' message catalog higher than system's.

1 files changed, 29 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/tests/test_intl.py b/tests/test_intl.py
index 1d1282baa..c0b87d5ce 100644
--- a/tests/test_intl.py
+++ b/tests/test_intl.py
@@ -14,8 +14,10 @@ import re
 
 import pytest
 from babel.messages import pofile, mofile
+from babel.messages.catalog import Catalog
 from docutils import nodes
 
+from sphinx import locale
 from sphinx.testing.util import (
     path, etree_parse, strip_escseq,
     assert_re_search, assert_not_re_search, assert_startswith, assert_node
@@ -1289,3 +1291,30 @@ def test_image_glob_intl_using_figure_language_filename(app):
 
 def getwarning(warnings):
     return strip_escseq(warnings.getvalue().replace(os.sep, '/'))
+
+
+@pytest.mark.sphinx('html', testroot='basic', confoverrides={'language': 'de'})
+def test_customize_system_message(make_app, app_params, sphinx_test_tempdir):
+    try:
+        # clear translators cache
+        locale.translators.clear()
+
+        # prepare message catalog (.po)
+        locale_dir = sphinx_test_tempdir / 'basic' / 'locales' / 'de' / 'LC_MESSAGES'
+        locale_dir.makedirs()
+        with (locale_dir / 'sphinx.po').open('wb') as f:
+            catalog = Catalog()
+            catalog.add('Quick search', 'QUICK SEARCH')
+            pofile.write_po(f, catalog)
+
+        # construct application and convert po file to .mo
+        args, kwargs = app_params
+        app = make_app(*args, **kwargs)
+        assert (locale_dir / 'sphinx.mo').exists()
+        assert app.translator.gettext('Quick search') == 'QUICK SEARCH'
+
+        app.build()
+        content = (app.outdir / 'index.html').read_text()
+        assert 'QUICK SEARCH' in content
+    finally:
+        locale.translators.clear()