I have already read it in the docs. My problem isn't model names, it's
the app's name I can't figure how to translate.
Thanks for trying to help.
On Sep 20, 10:41 pm, Joshua Russo <josh.r.ru...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 6:22 PM, SaiaGo <sai...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I'm trying to make an Israeli site (which means it should be written
> > in Hebrew) using the latest SVN and so far Django made it so easy I
> > can't believe it's free. I got a simple magazine app with up and
> > running in less then a day, and I barely know Python!
> > My only problem so far is application names in admin pages. I can't
> > seem to find a way to translate application names.
>
> > As far as I understand from the docs app names are chosen based on the
> > directory name they reside in. so mysite/magazine should be
> > "Magazine", which is what admin pages display.
> > I tried making a .po file and translating "Magazine" (assuming my app
> > is in "mysite/magazine") like so:
> > msgid "Magazine"
> > msgstr "מגזין"
> > But this approach isn't working.
>
> > Is there a way to explicitly set an app name so I could set it to
> > ugettext("Magazine") or some kind of special msgid I have to use to
> > translate app names, or is this functionality not implemented yet?(In
> > which case I would happily implement it myself)
>
> > And while I have the chance I would like to thank anyone who
> > contributed to the design, programming, templates and translation of
> > Django very very much. Projects like this make me hope for a better
> > world where people rather share than sell, at least a better virtual
> > world. And I hope I could contribute to Django in the future.
>
> You can use the verbose_name properties in a Meta class in your model. Just
> keep in mind you will need to use the lazy translation function.
>
> http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/db/models/#id3
> <http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/db/models/#id3>http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/i18n/#topics-i18n(there's
> a
> section for Lazy translations)
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