#26337: Translations - No fallback used if requesting english variant
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Reporter: cristianocca | Owner: nobody
Type: | Status: new
Cleanup/optimization |
Component: Documentation | Version: 1.9
Severity: Normal | Resolution:
Keywords: i18n translations | Triage Stage: Accepted
english |
Has patch: 0 | Needs documentation: 0
Needs tests: 0 | Patch needs improvement: 0
Easy pickings: 0 | UI/UX: 0
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Comment (by cristianocca):
Example (high level, no actual code)
- using message ids that are actually codes rather than text, but can be
done with any case where the actual msgstr is not always the same as msgid
for your default language (another example, if you do not use unicode
characters as msgids for some reason like not wanting unicode on python
code strings, so you always need the msgstr value even for default
language for translations that have unicode characters)
- default language = 'en-gb'
- translations: en-gb = { 'BUTTON_1':'Colour', 'BUTTON_2':'Monday'}, en-us
= { 'BUTTON_1':'Color', 'BUTTON_2':''} (note how I'm lazy and I don't
translate the BUTTON_2 msgid because 'Monday' is the same in every
language variant so I'm ok by falling to default.
- Client requests the 'en-gb' translation, woops it starts with 'en' so it
won't load your default language as fallback and you never get the actual
BUTTON_2 translation, when requested you end up with the ugly msgid.
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