#17246: title localization
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Reporter: anonymous | Owner: nobody
Type: | Status: reopened
Cleanup/optimization | Version: 1.3
Component: contrib.admin | Resolution:
Severity: Normal | Triage Stage: Accepted
Keywords: title main.py | Needs documentation: 0
base.html | Patch needs improvement: 0
Has patch: 0 | UI/UX: 1
Needs tests: 0 |
Easy pickings: 0 |
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Comment (by shelldweller):
The problem described here is string interpolation. In some languages
simply sticking the verbose name into a template results in grammatically
incorrect phrase.
Ramiro's proposal mentioned above does not really address this problem as
it primarily deals with pluralization.
While this is a real problem, I'd say it should be marked as "won't fix"
for 3 reasons:
1) Language generation is a rather non-trivial problem that is not
specific to Django.
2) There is a simple but someone ugly workaround. Translators may choose
to localize the offending template string in such a way that interpolating
generic verbose form works for their locale. The resulting phrase often
looks rather artificial but is at least grammatically correct (e.g.,
"Select object to change: user" instead of "Select user to change").
3) The proposed solution is ineffective. Whether we localize this in code
(`Select %s to change`) or in template (`Select {{ title }} to change`) -
the result is still the same.
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