Django ugettext strings not taken into account for translation

[artscoop93.info@…]

I have been trying to do l10n on strings provided by the filesizeformat template filter.
These strings are file size units (eg. KB, MB, GB), and are marked for translation with the use of ugettext.
But, alas, they are not in Django's default .po file, and not found either with the makemessages command, therefore I cannot translate those strings to other languages.

I have found (or understood) nothing about this in the docs. LOCALE_PATHS does obviously not help (since the app has no locale folder). I file this because it could be a bug (by omission). Or one could provide a way to handle this.

[Claude Paroz]

These strings are in Django's default .po file.
​https://github.com/django/django/blob/master/django/conf/locale/en/LC_MESSAGES/django.po#L736

I don't read anything in this ticket description that could make me think that there is a bug. Please provide more details (examples?) if you still think there's a bug.

[artscoop93.info@…]

Oh, ehm, sorry. They were actually in the .po file, thank you.
But the fr translations are wrong according to fr rules on these units.
I guess I have now to learn how to contribute to the django package.

[Claude Paroz]

Mmmh, you are right. I never noticed. As I am a French translator, I can fix them. Are you ok with KB -> Kio, MB -> Mio, etc.?

[artscoop93.info@…]

Hello Claude.
I have just applied to the django-fr team at Transifex.
Kio, Mio would be perfect, even though "Ko" and "Mo" are of more common use.

[Claude Paroz]

Translation fixed.

[Aymeric Augustin]

I've never met anyone who knows what a kibioctet or a mébioctet is — I just learnt it from ​Wikipédia.

The "common use" box at the top right of this page lists ko / Mo / Go. We should stick with that until the "technically correct" acronyms become widely used (if they ever do).

I'm -1 on Kio / Mio / Gio / etc. and +1 on ko / Mo / Go / etc.