django makemessages doesn't recognize trans in templates

Jojo

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Hi, the subject should be a little clear so, this is the project folder structure

project folder

locale

en

LC_MESSAGES

django.po

es

LC_MESSAGES

django.po

it

LC_MESSAGES

django.po

project

__init__.py

mochileros

settings.py

urls.py

wsgi.py

application folder

models.py

views.py

I have created a locale folder and after I launched the django-admin.py makemessages command as explained in the documentation, but when I open a .po file (the command create the files actually), I can't found the msgid/msgstr relative to the translation instruction in my template files.

This is my base template.

{% load i18n %}

<!DOCTYPE html>

<html>

...

<a class="MENU" href="{% url views.home %}">{% trans "home" %}</a>

<a class="MENU" href="{% url views.contacts %}">{% trans "contacts" %}</a>

<a class="MENU" href="{% url views.about_us %}">{% trans "about_us" %}</a>

...

</div>

I have added the LocaleMiddleware in the settings file so, do I forgot something?

Any suggestions?

Thank you in advance

Thomas Orozco

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Aug 17, 2012, 7:27:25 AM8/17/12

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You gave us the project layout, but where are the templates?

My guess is that Django is basically not picking them templates up, but I might be off.

There are arguments to the makemessages command that can help you indicate the directory you want messages created for. You can also use higher verbosity I think.
I'm sorry I can't name them on the top of my head though.

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Melvyn Sopacua

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On 17-8-2012 4:15, Jojo wrote:

> I have created a locale folder and after I launched the django-admin.py
> makemessages command as explained in the documentation, but when I open a
> .po file (the command create the files actually), I can't found
> the msgid/msgstr relative to the translation instruction in my template
> files.

This is one of the limitations of the makemessages command.
I've ironed out a number of them in a 'projectmessages' management command:
http://dpaste.de/QEA9D/

It's a work in progress, but fits my needs for now. YMMV.

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Jojo

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i'm sorry, templates are in application folder in the templates directory

Jojo

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I got it.

My templates files have htm extension and makemessages looks for htmL files, so I used -e option specifying htm extension like this:

django-admin.py makemessages -l es -e htm

Now I have msgid/msgstr that I need.

NOW

I compiled the msgstr with the translations an compiled the messages with the command compilemessages, but I can't see the translations in my page.

For example for this link

<a class="MENU" href="{% url views.contacts %}">{% trans "contacts" %}</a>

I have the msgstr="Contactos". I expect to see "Contactos" in the browser, but I still see "contacts". Any suggestion?

Thank you

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Jojo

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Ok guys, I was missing the LOCALE_PATHS in settings.py, now it works properly.

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Tomas Neme

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> For example for this link
>
> <a class="MENU" href="{% url views.contacts %}">{% trans "contacts" %}</a>
>
> I have the msgstr="Contactos". I expect to see "Contactos" in the browser,
> but I still see "contacts". Any suggestion?

1) case-sensitive. Are you sure you haven't translated "Contacts"
instead of "contacts"?
2) fuzzy-mark. I've noticed that if a translation is marked as
"fuzzy", sometimes gettext doesn't use it

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Jojo

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what is the meaning of the fuzzy mark?

Nick Apostolakis

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On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 8:18 PM, Jojo <matteo.d...@gmail.com> wrote:

what is the meaning of the fuzzy mark?

fuzzy is some kind of auto translated field.

it may be correct or not.

when you are sure that the translation is correct, you remove the fuzzy annotation and then the translation works fine

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thank you guys! very helpful!

Il giorno lunedì 20 agosto 2012 12:43:20 UTC-5, Nick Apostolakis ha scritto:

On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 8:18 PM, Jojo <matteo.d...@gmail.com> wrote:
what is the meaning of the fuzzy mark?

fuzzy is some kind of auto translated field.
it may be correct or not.
when you are sure that the translation is correct, you remove the fuzzy annotation and then the translation works fine

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