I'm needing to translate several Django sites/apps into arabic (a Right-To-Left language) and I'm having difficulty editing the .po files when the message to translate contains Left-To-Right variables or HTML markup.
Whether I'm using TextMate, TextWrangler or poedit, if I'm editing a translation it correctly has the text RTL, but it also turns any variables/markup RTL when it needs to stay LTR. For example, I get this: verbose_name)s)% تم تحديثه بنجاح. When it needs to be this: %(verbose_name)s تم تحديثه بنجاح. Similar problem if I need to do something like have a <strong> or <em> tag around a piece of text in the translation file. As I type the LTR HTML tags in the RTL text it tries to make the tags RTL too. It looks like Django's arabic translation file [1] has variables LTR, so I'm curious what editor the Django arabic translators are using, what fixes I need for poedit or what I'm doing wrong when I edit. >From Googling around, I did see a poedit issue logged a few years ago [2], but they said it's a native control issue, which might explain why I see this same behavior in every Mac OS X editor I've tried thus far. [1] http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/trunk/django/conf/locale/ar/LC_MESSAGES/django.po [2] http://www.poedit.net/trac/ticket/296 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
