On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 2:16 PM, Ma Ba <m.bal...@northbit.com> wrote: > Hi, > I have a question about the internationalization feature ... > > I have a country model: > > class Country(models.Model): > nameKey = models.CharField(max_length=50) > shortNameKey = models.CharField(max_length=30) > > The properties 'nameKey' and 'shortNameKey' contain resource keys like > '_country_af' or '_country_af_short'. I need this to show the country names > depending on the current locale. > > The problem was/is to add the resource keys to the .po file, so I found a > solution in a forum: > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7625991/how-to-properly-add-entries-for-computed-values-to-the-django-internationalizati > > For example, I added the following to a model file: > > def dummy_for_makemessages(): > #countries > pgettext('forecast type', '_country_af') > pgettext('forecast type', '_country_af_short') > > Runing makemessages this generates the following entries in the .po file: > > msgctxt "forecast type" > msgid "_country_af" > msgstr "Afghanistan" > > msgctxt "forecast type" > msgid "_country_af_short" > msgstr "Afghanistan" > > For testing purposes I tried to iterate over all countries in my database in > a template and to print out the translated names: > > {% for country in countries %} > {% trans country.nameKey %} > {% endfor %} > > Unfortunately, it only prints out the following (the resource keys instead > of the translated names): > > _country_af > _country_ai > _country_qa > _country_ke > _country_kg > _country_ki > _country_cc > _country_co > ... > > I found out that the 'msgctxt' part in the .po file causes the missing > translation. I removed it for testing purposes and this time it worked fine. > > So, my question is, how can I translate resource keys that are not defined > in the template itself but in an object property instead? Is there a way to > generate the resource keys without the 'msgctxt' part? I tried NONE or an > empty string but this generates a commented out resource key in the .po file > (please see the link to the other forum above). > Does anybody have an idea how to solve this problem? > > Thanks for your help in advance!! >
You did compile the po file catalogues to mo files, right? Otherwise, gettext will simply return the msgid. msgctxt should be irrelevant. Cheers Tom -- 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.
