👋 there have been a lot of discussions and tickets opened on permissions translations in the past. I’m not sure what the etiquette here is, hence why I’m starting a new conversation.
I would like to see #1688 Permissions don't get translated in admin interface <https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/1688> reconsidered, as to me it seems like a clear bug, which affects a lot of users. Though not many people might be managing permissions regularly, when you do, it’s very jarring that the text is in the wrong language. I’m not sure what Django’s stance is on supporting non-english users generally, but based on our diversity statement I feel like "100% of the admin UI translated" is an important goal – and looking at Transifex <https://explore.transifex.com/django/django/>, there are a lot of people putting in a lot of effort to get it there. If this is a wontfix because the store-label-in-DB approach is effectively impossible to make work, then I think this would be worth clearing documenting on the Localizing Django <https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/4.1/internals/contributing/localizing/> page so translators know what to expect. Ideally also mention elsewhere in a place visible to end users. --- >From a technical perspective, this is far from my area of expertise but as I understand there are clear solutions – one that’s "quick and dirty" would be to hard-code a list of gettext_lazy calls with the same labels as stored in the DB for the purpose of collecting the labels for PO files, and then we could use {% translate %} over the DB-provided values anyway. No change to the DB needed. I count 8 Django-provided models in my demo site (might be missing others), each has 4 Django-provided permissions, so that’s 32 strings to hard-code. Feels doable! -- 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/8e14c59f-3331-401a-85a1-cbf27d49fe65n%40googlegroups.com.
