That is because T() is not in context when validators are defined. you have
to pass error_message to your validators.
db.table.field.requires=IS_NOT_EMPTY(error_message=T('this field cannot be
empty'))
That is the way I am doing woth my Portuguese systems and sites.
2010/12/27 Martin Weissenboeck <mweis...@gmail.com>
> Hi,
>
> I want to build a website using German. A lot of texts can be translated
> using the T() object. But there are some problems:
>
> (1) I have modified default/user.html:
>
> - <a href="{{=URL(r=request,args='register')}}">{{=T('register')}}</a>
> - <a
> href="{{=URL(r=request,args='request_reset_password')}}">{{=T('lost
> password')}}</a>
>
> Works fine. Would be nice to have these lines as standard text.
> (2) There is a lot of English strings in gluon/validators.py, starting
> with
>
> - error_message (e.g. "def __init__(self, expression,
> error_message='invalid expression'):"),
> - failures.append and
> - format
>
> I was very surprised that I could not find any T() object in the code. Now
> I tried to use the T() object for all of these lines, but T() is not known.
> That
> is realy not good - a lot of users would not accept a website with mixed
> German and English words. What can I do?
>
> Which kind regards
> Martin
>
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