Internationalization: trans with object property

Hi,
I have a question about the internationalization feature ...

I have a country model:

class Country(models.Model):
    nameKey = models.CharField(max_length=50)
    shortNameKey = models.CharField(max_length=30)

The properties 'nameKey' and 'shortNameKey' contain resource keys like '_country_af' or '_country_af_short'. I need this to show the country names depending on the current locale.

The problem was/is to add the resource keys to the .po file, so I found a solution in a forum: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7625991/how-to-properly-add-entries-for-computed-values-to-the-django-internationalizati

For example, I added the following to a model file:

def dummy_for_makemessages():
    #countries
    pgettext('forecast type', '_country_af')
    pgettext('forecast type', '_country_af_short')

Runing makemessages this generates the following entries in the .po file:

msgctxt "forecast type"
msgid "_country_af"
msgstr "Afghanistan"

msgctxt "forecast type"
msgid "_country_af_short"
msgstr "Afghanistan"

For testing purposes I tried to iterate over all countries in my database in a template and to print out the translated names:

{% for country in countries %}
    {% trans country.nameKey %}
{% endfor %}

Unfortunately, it only prints out the following (the resource keys instead of the translated names):

_country_af
_country_ai
_country_qa
_country_ke
_country_kg
_country_ki
_country_cc
_country_co
...

I found out that the 'msgctxt' part in the .po file causes the missing translation. I removed it for testing purposes and this time it worked fine.

So, my question is, how can I translate resource keys that are not defined in the template itself but in an object property instead? Is there a way to generate the resource keys without the 'msgctxt' part? I tried NONE or an empty string but this generates a commented out resource key in the .po file (please see the link to the other forum above).
Does anybody have an idea how to solve this problem?

Thanks for your help in advance!!

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