This MUST be a common issue for international developers: We use some geeky English name for our application and afterwards find that the translated admin index looks a little silly in the eyes of our native speaking users. Apparently a patch has been accepted in the Django dev version, but it’s not yet in the trunk. Here’s what to do: In your applications’ __init__.py files put:
1 2 | from django.utils.translation import gettext_noop gettext_noop("AppName") |
When your run manage.py makemessages -a there will be entries for these. Make sure to remove lines saying #, fuzzy. Now all you have to do is to customize the default admin template called index.html so it will actually do the translation of the application names.
18 | <caption>{% trans app.name %}</caption> |
Thanks. I’d be glad to know how this applies to django-1.0, since now there is no make-messages.py to patch.
And non-english users would welcome application names to be translated. Until now I haven’t found an easy way to do it.
Sorry about the late reply. The patch has been approved, so now you just have to do the replacement in your admin template… that is: Replace the ‘blocktrans’ with a simple ‘trans’ and run ./manage.py makemessages -l (you language code) -a and you should see your application translations in the .po files given that you’ve also applied the dummy translation in __init__.py
Hope this helps.