django makemessages management command

[Osama AbuOmar]

About the django makemessages management command. I think there should by an option to NOT let django comment out manually added translations to the .po files.

sometimes I need to manually add a translation definition (msgid, msgstr), these are not in any of my template or python files. and when I run makemessages they get commented out. and this is an issue.

thanks 

[Claude Paroz]

Hi Osama,

You can simply do that by including a gettext_noop('your custom string') line anywhere in your code (or in a specific file you create for that purpose).

Regards,

Claude

[Marcin Nowak]

You can simply do that by including a gettext_noop('your custom string') line anywhere in your code (or in a specific file you create for that purpose).

This is an ugly workaround.  Makemessages has other issue - it grabs messages from external eggs/packages, which are found in current and nested dirs. So beware - it can make a mess with your translations.

BR,

Marcin

[vishvajit pathak]

You could include the a python file where you can place all the strings which you manually wanted to add and then use the makemessages management command. I think it will serve the purpose. 

I think this behaviour of commenting out manually added strings by makemessages management command is correct.