From 85205514783fdd6957bdf98a04730bc90415cb19 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Aymeric Augustin Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2015 22:36:51 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Pointed Jinja2 users to Babel instead of makemessages. --- docs/topics/i18n/translation.txt | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 26 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/topics/i18n/translation.txt b/docs/topics/i18n/translation.txt index ea295ae8ca..21c1e64daf 100644 --- a/docs/topics/i18n/translation.txt +++ b/docs/topics/i18n/translation.txt @@ -1330,6 +1330,32 @@ multiple times:: ` you need to use the special 'djangojs' domain, **not** ``-e js``. +.. admonition:: Using Jinja2 templates? + + :djadmin:`makemessages` doesn't understand the syntax of Jinja2 templates. + To extract strings from a project containing Jinja2 templates, use Babel_ + instead. + + Here's an example ``babel.cfg`` configuration file:: + + # Extraction from Python source files + [python: **.py] + + # Extraction from Jinja2 templates + [jinja2: **.jinja] + extensions = jinja2.ext.with_ + + Make sure you list all extensions you're using! Otherwise Babel won't + recognize the tags defined by these extensions and will ignore Jinja2 + templates containing them entirely. + + Babel provides similar features to :djadmin:`makemessages`, can replace it + in general, and doesn't depend on ``gettext``. For more information, read + its documentation about `working with message catalogs`_. + + .. _Babel: http://babel.pocoo.org/ + .. _working with message catalogs: http://babel.pocoo.org/docs/messages/ + .. admonition:: No gettext? If you don't have the ``gettext`` utilities installed,