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| author | Tim Graham <timograham@gmail.com> | 2018-04-18 08:29:21 -0400 |
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| committer | Carlton Gibson <carlton.gibson@noumenal.es> | 2018-04-18 14:35:16 +0200 |
| commit | 8b4798c8d31b3cd9faab4caf11fca000b07f0181 (patch) | |
| tree | 74cf7ccb4b56b9f041658109b7eabf8d6f9daa32 | |
| parent | 800778f7ad64a04401034f6b1005ec8071efc3bf (diff) | |
| download | django-8b4798c8d31b3cd9faab4caf11fca000b07f0181.tar.gz | |
[1.11.x] Fixed #29174, #29175 -- Doc'd that f-strings and JavaScript template strings can't be translated.
Backport of c3437f734d03d93f798151f712064394652cabed from master
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/topics/i18n/translation.txt | 7 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/docs/topics/i18n/translation.txt b/docs/topics/i18n/translation.txt index 158bc6fb58..a9fc247d0f 100644 --- a/docs/topics/i18n/translation.txt +++ b/docs/topics/i18n/translation.txt @@ -137,6 +137,13 @@ instead of positional interpolation (e.g., ``%s`` or ``%d``) whenever you have more than a single parameter. If you used positional interpolation, translations wouldn't be able to reorder placeholder text. +Since string extraction is done by the ``xgettext`` command, only syntaxes +supported by ``gettext`` are supported by Django. Python f-strings_ and +`JavaScript template strings`_ are not yet supported by ``xgettext``. + +.. _f-strings: https://docs.python.org/3/reference/lexical_analysis.html#f-strings +.. _JavaScript template strings: https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?50920 + .. _translator-comments: Comments for translators |