I have a form to update the details of the user in a multilingual text. In the dropdown for sex, it does not translate the choice of sex as below:
I tried using the gettext_noop
in the model.py file for the choices. I see them in the .po file. Still it doesn’t work. What am I doing wrong?
model.py
from django.utils.translation import gettext_noop
Account_sex = [('male',gettext_noop('Male')),('female',gettext_noop('Female'))] #List of tuples with choices. First one is what's stored in DB and second what is shown in html.
class Account(AbstractBaseUser):
first_name = models.CharField(max_length=50)
email = models.EmailField(max_length=100, unique=True)
sex = models.CharField(max_length=10, blank=True, null=True, choices=Account_sex, default="male")
view.py
@login_required(login_url="login")
def edit_profile(request):
if request.user.is_authenticated:
current_user = Account.objects.get(id=request.user.id)
form = EditProfileForm(request.POST or None, instance=current_user)
if form.is_valid():
form.save()
messages.success(request,("Your profile has been updated!"))
return redirect('dashboard')
return render(request, 'accounts/edit_profile.html',context={'form':form}) #
else:
messages.success(request,('You must be logged in!'))
return redirect('login')
edit_profile.html
<div class="col col-auto form-group">
<label>{% trans "Sex" %}</label>
{{ form.sex }}
</div>
django.po
#: .\accounts\models.py:44
msgid "Male"
msgstr "Hombre"
#: .\accounts\models.py:44
msgid "Female"
msgstr "Mujer"
The simple answer is you need to use gettext_lazy
instead of gettext_noop
.
gettext_noop
says “This is a translatable string” for the purpose of .po files etc, but doesn’t actually translate it. This is useful if you need to use, for example, the translated string in a user message, but the untranslated string in a log. But you’ll need to use gettext_lazy
to actually translate it (using the lazy version here to defer translation until the user-chosen language is known).
Here is a clear example: docs.djangoproject.com/en/4.2/topics/i18n/translation/…