Allow turning off fuzzy matching for makemessages (Reopen #10852)

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gw...@fusionbox.com

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Apr 12, 2021, 6:25:47 PM4/12/21
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Fuzzy matching is not useful for me and confuses my translators. I would like to be able to pass an option to makemessages that passes the --no-fuzzy-matching option to msgmerge to turn it off. I understand it is useful for some people, so fuzzy matching should remain the default. I propose allowing makemessages to take the same option name as msgmerge and pass it through to the msgmerge invocation.

This was discussed in https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/10852. I do not believe the usefulness of fuzzy matching in some situations should preclude allowing it to be turned off in others.

Claude Paroz

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Apr 13, 2021, 2:10:29 AM4/13/21
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As you can see in the ticket you mention (see last comment), it is already possible to do so by adding a custom version of the makemessages command in your project.

Hope this helps,

Claude
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