On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 7:18 AM, Kal Sze <swordan...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> While trying to develop my first real Django project, I have come across
> an *apparent* need to i18n'ize any arbitrary, unknown format string, with
> an accompanying dictionary that contains the substitutes to insert into the
> translated format string. For instance, I have a template that is displayed
> when a certain SomeError is raised:
>
> except SomeError as error:
> render_to_response('myapp/some_error.html',
> { 'the_error': error },
> context_instance=RequestContext(request))
>
> I expect the SomeError object to contain information to be displayed to
> the user. Specifically, SomeError will have a format_string attribute and
> a substitute_dict attribute. The content of format_string is chosen at
> runtime, but it is assumed that translations exist. For instance,
> format_string could be:
>
> "{{user}}, you cannot upload this video because you are out of quota.
> You only have {{capacity}} out of {{quota}} left in your account."
>
> or it could be:
>
> "{{user}}, you cannot upload this video because it is in a format that
> we don't accept ({{video_format}})."
>
> Now assume that French, Spanish, Chinese, etc. translations exist for the
> two example strings above.
>
> And substitute_dict would contain the correct substitute strings. For
> instance:
>
> {
> 'user': 'Alice',
> 'capacity': '50 MB',
> 'quota': '20 GB',
> }
>
> or
>
> {
> 'user': 'Alice',
> 'video_format': '3ivx',
> }
>
> As you can imagine, even Django's built-in {% blocktrans %} tag doesn't
> seem to help here, for two reasons (as far as I understand):
>
> 1. it requires the substitutes to be explicitly declared and bound to
> variables right in the template file;
> 2. it requires the i18n string to be spelled out between {% blocktrans
> %} and {% endblocktrans %}; it cannot work with an i18n string that is
> itself inside a variable.
>
> Which means that I apparently need a new template tag, maybe something
> called {% blockdicttrans format_string substitute_dict %}.
>
> Is this madness? Have I overlooked some Django or Pythonic way? Or is it
> actually a justifiable use case?
>
> Cheers,
> Kal
>
>
> I will leave the answering of the meat of your question to someone who has
actually performed internationalization (other than to say that support
must be enabled in settings, and that there is a collection of mappings
that must be produced, as you surmise, in a per app sub directory
structure, IIUC).
However, presuming that your try/render code is copied, rather than being a
reduced summary, I would point out that render_to_response has a value
which must be 'return'ed from the view in order to have any effect.
Bill
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