maybe translation context? https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/i18n/translation/#contextual-markers
On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 9:29 PM, Fergus Cameron <[email protected]> wrote: > I personally try to use language agnostic message IDs and translate > everything (i.e. including English). Your idea of appending the > gender is along the same lines and seems logical. > > On 22/12/2016, Uri Even-Chen <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Django users, > > > > How do you recommend to use Hebrew gender-related translations? > > > > For example, here are the choices for diet in Speedy Net (notice it's > > currently only used in Speedy Match, but it's part of the profile of > Speedy > > Net): > > > > ``` > > class User(Entity, PermissionsMixin, AbstractBaseUser): > > .... > > GENDER_FEMALE = 1 > > GENDER_MALE = 2 > > GENDER_OTHER = 3 > > GENDER_CHOICES = ( > > (GENDER_FEMALE, _('Female')), > > (GENDER_MALE, _('Male')), > > (GENDER_OTHER, _('Other')), > > ) > > > > DIET_UNKNOWN = 0 > > DIET_VEGAN = 1 > > DIET_VEGETARIAN = 2 > > DIET_CARNIST = 3 > > DIET_CHOICES = ( > > (DIET_UNKNOWN, _('Please select...')), > > (DIET_VEGAN, _('Vegan (eats only plants and fungi)')), > > (DIET_VEGETARIAN, _('Vegetarian (doesn\'t eat fish and meat)')), > > (DIET_CARNIST, _('Carnist (eats animals)')) > > ) > > .... > > gender = models.SmallIntegerField(verbose_name=_('I am'), > > choices=GENDER_CHOICES) > > diet = models.SmallIntegerField(verbose_name=_('diet'), > > choices=DIET_CHOICES, default=DIET_UNKNOWN) > > ``` > > > > And here are the translations: > > ``` > > #: .\accounts\models.py:151 > > msgid "Vegan (eats only plants and fungi)" > > msgstr "טבעוני/ת (אוכל/ת רק צמחים ופטריות)" > > > > #: .\accounts\models.py:152 > > msgid "Vegetarian (doesn't eat fish and meat)" > > msgstr "צמחוני/ת (לא אוכל/ת דגים ובשר)" > > > > #: .\accounts\models.py:153 > > msgid "Carnist (eats animals)" > > msgstr "קרניסט/ית (אוכל/ת חיות)" > > ``` > > > > The correct translations in Hebrew are per gender (female, male or other) > > but in English they are the same. How do you recommend to program it? I > > thought about adding " [female]", " [male]" or " [other]" suffixes to the > > strings and then removing them in the English translations. But then > > English would also require a translation. Is there a better approach? And > > how do I write the model when this feature is gender-related? > > > > The same question is related to any site which has a language where the > > text is gender-related, and a language where it is not. > > > > You can see the code on GitHub: https://github.com/ > urievenchen/speedy-net > > > > Thanks, > > Uri. > > > > *Uri Even-Chen* > > [image: photo] Phone: +972-54-3995700 > > Email: [email protected] > > Website: http://www.speedysoftware.com/uri/en/ > > <http://www.facebook.com/urievenchen> > > <http://plus.google.com/+urievenchen> > > <http://www.linkedin.com/in/urievenchen> < > http://github.com/urievenchen> > > <http://twitter.com/urievenchen> > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "Django users" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > > email to [email protected]. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/django-users. > > To view this discussion on the web visit > > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/CAMQ2MsGv_ > fvj6ijM4rb-Y7XfQeGbPJvd38_7o_LYbiukuhxyrg%40mail.gmail.com. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Django users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/django-users. > To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/ > msgid/django-users/CAHCf7OFGAsD5dAWKOwM535U7ChftJ3LLM9BS2u%3DHPm9Oiued_Q% > 40mail.gmail.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/django-users. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/CAFWa6t%2BwK%2BZBGuayQp8RBpfbC%3DE5QtshfJC13ANMdqru9WCENw%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
