#29144: `DjangoTranslation.merge` loses catalog fallbacks
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Reporter: Patryk Zawadzki | Owner: Patryk
| Zawadzki
Type: Bug | Status: assigned
Component: | Version: 2.0
Internationalization |
Severity: Normal | Resolution:
Keywords: | Triage Stage:
| Unreviewed
Has patch: 1 | Needs documentation: 0
Needs tests: 0 | Patch needs improvement: 0
Easy pickings: 0 | UI/UX: 0
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Comment (by Matt Westcott):
Very happy to see this being addressed! (We were bitten by this on
Wagtail... https://github.com/wagtail/wagtail/issues/3600 )
When I looked into this some time ago, I think I stumbled at the point of
making Django's precedence rules behave correctly with gettext's: to be
totally correct, I believe it should apply all of Django's translation-
finding rules (LOCALE_PATHS in sequence, then INSTALLED_APPS in sequence,
then Django's own) for the most specific locale (`de_DE.ISO8859-1`),
followed by the same sequence of rules for the next locale (`de_DE`), and
so on.
In the case of the current PR, I suspect that there are some possible
setups where this ordering isn't strictly followed, but as far as I can
see, this only arises when there are three or more locale identifiers in
play. (The primary catalog is built up with a `dict.update`, as per
Django's existing code, but the fallbacks are added to the end of the
chain - as per the gettext implementation of `add_fallback`. So, after
it's finished pulling in all the translations, the final order of
precedence will be all of the `de_DE.ISO8859-1` translations, followed by
`de_DE` and `de.ISO8859-1` and `de` for each app - rather than all of the
`de_DE.ISO8859-1` translations, followed by all of the `de_DE`
translations, followed by all of the `de.ISO8859-1` translations...).
Obviously, this is an incredibly obscure and minor point relative to the
issue being fixed here (and doing it 100% correctly probably requires
replicating or monkeypatching gettext internals), so I'm happy for this to
be accepted as-is. I'm only raising this as a gotcha in case a more alert
reviewer notices a more severe side-effect :-)
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