#9753: makemessages failed on long Chinese text
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Reporter: Will | Owner: nobody
Status: new | Milestone: post-1.0
Component: Internationalization | Version: 1.0
Resolution: | Keywords: django-admin.py
makemessages
Stage: Unreviewed | Has_patch: 0
Needs_docs: 0 | Needs_tests: 0
Needs_better_patch: 0 |
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Comment (by mtredinnick):
Ah, another windows problem. Fantastic. :-(
A couple of comments:
1. The reason we don't have `--no-wrap` on unconditionally is that it
leads to pretty ugly PO files, particularly for those working in text
editors. However, it's becoming clear that there's a need to allow
arbitrary gettext options to be specified and passed through our wrappers
to xgettext, with `--no-wrap` being one of those things. With luck, we'll
get that change in for 1.1.
2. We mark the template files as being of type "Python" because the
conversion process to the intermediate form that we ultimately run
xgettext over converts variables to Python format strings (not valid for
`{% trans %}`, but certainly so for `{% blocktrans %}` tags). The
advantage of doing that is that translation tools know about Python format
and can mark them appropriately (e.g. syntax highlighting) and
`compilemessages` will warn about any misspellings of format strings, or
omitted format strings. That catches a ''lot'' of errors. If the gettext
tools somehow magically knew about Django markup, we'd use "Django"
format, but that isn't the case today, so the conversion to intermediate
Python format, which is then processed with xgettext is actually a pretty
neat way of working with existing tools for translators.
If the original poster can confirm this is just a problems with an older
gettext on Windows then the resolution is to upgrade to a more recent
version of gettext (it's been over 2 years since gettext 0.15 was
released, so we're not requiring anything that's just been released in the
last few months) and, in the future, we'll also allow the arbitrary
parameter passing.
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