I personally like the current behavior. If I don't have a translation prepared for a certain text, I want it to fall back on the default text. Saying that, how about Django incorporate a management command of some sort that can be used to examine the translation files and return the texts that are not translated?
-----Original Message----- From: django-developers@googlegroups.com <django-developers@googlegroups.com> On Behalf Of Michiel Beijen Sent: Friday, June 16, 2023 1:44 AM To: django-developers@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Feature request: making gettext more robust > On 15 Jun 2023, at 16:15, Tobias Kunze <r...@cutebit.de> wrote: > > On 23-06-15 04:29:59, Gergely Kalmár wrote: >> It seems that gettext is currently quite permissive – it falls back >> to the default language whenever a translation file is missing or if >> the requested message ID is missing from the translation file. This >> can lead to errors slipping through easily. >> >> I think it would be great if there was a way to make gettext raise an >> error when the translation file is missing or when the msgid is missing. > > Agreed that this is annoying behaviour, but as far as I can tell, > there's not much that Django can do. IIRC we only wrap Python's gettext > module¹. > > The relevant method, GNUTranslations.gettext, returns the original > message if no translation has been found, and it does so without > indicating that this is a fallback response². > > AIUI this behaviour is rooted in GNU's gettext, which (just like the > Python > version) allows you to set a priority list of languages to fall back to³. In ‘runtime’ indeed it is difficult to get a warning for an untranslated string; the best way to go about it is to generate the translation file and check for untranslated string in your translation file via some automated check such as a Github Action. The added benefit this has is that if there is a translation string hiding in a lesser used part of your app such as the password reset form or so, it will still be spotted by the translation file generation, whereas you might otherwise miss this if you’re just clicking around in the app. — Michiel -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers (Contributions to Django itself)" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-developers/4FE0664B-5E88-460C-826F-F0A85FC09D5B%40x14.nl. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers (Contributions to Django itself)" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-developers/DS7PR15MB59105F07249DA9F12BC11F098258A%40DS7PR15MB5910.namprd15.prod.outlook.com.
