On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 6:22 PM, SaiaGo <sai...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I'm trying to make an Israeli site (which means it should be written
> in Hebrew) using the latest SVN and so far Django made it so easy I
> can't believe it's free. I got a simple magazine app with up and
> running in less then a day, and I barely know Python!
> My only problem so far is application names in admin pages. I can't
> seem to find a way to translate application names.
>
> As far as I understand from the docs app names are chosen based on the
> directory name they reside in. so mysite/magazine should be
> "Magazine", which is what admin pages display.
> I tried making a .po file and translating "Magazine" (assuming my app
> is in "mysite/magazine") like so:
> msgid "Magazine"
> msgstr "מגזין"
> But this approach isn't working.
>
> Is there a way to explicitly set an app name so I could set it to
> ugettext("Magazine") or some kind of special msgid I have to use to
> translate app names, or is this functionality not implemented yet?(In
> which case I would happily implement it myself)
>
> And while I have the chance I would like to thank anyone who
> contributed to the design, programming, templates and translation of
> Django very very much. Projects like this make me hope for a better
> world where people rather share than sell, at least a better virtual
> world. And I hope I could contribute to Django in the future.
>
You can use the verbose_name properties in a Meta class in your model. Just
keep in mind you will need to use the lazy translation function.
http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/db/models/#id3
<http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/db/models/#id3>
http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/i18n/#topics-i18n (there's a
section for Lazy translations)
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