Re: Translation problem

On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 2:33 PM, Daniel Baron <daniel.baron@ggom.de> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have a problem getting the correct translation using gettext in the
> following situation:
>
> I have a view which calls a custom function to send an email. This functions
> takes three arguments
> - subject of the email (string)
> - the language of the email
> - the template to render the content of the email:
>
> e.g: my_mail(ugettext_lazy('This is the subject'), 'es', 'invitation')
>
> Now, my_mail looks basically like this:
>
> def my_mail(subject, lang, tpl):
>  translation.activate(lang)
>  content = render_to_string(....)
>  email = EmailMessage(subject, content, from_addr, to_addr)
>  email.send()
>
> Now my problem is, that the content of the email is always sent in the
> desired language given by the "lang" variable. While the subject of the
> email is always sent in the language of the user calling the view.
>
> What am I doing wrong? And how can I tell my function to translate the
> subject correctly? I thought that is exactly what ugettext_lazy is for, but
> obviously I misunderstood the concept.
>
> Thanks,
> Daniel
>

I'm guessing my_mail doesn't look exactly like that. ugettext_lazy is
translated to a unicode string when certain operations happen on it,
one of those must be happening. I have a mail function that looks very
similar to that, and it works correctly.

Cheers

Tom

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