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19552	makemessages ignores translations in templates with inline comment tags	juneih@…	nobody	"I'm using the management command makemessages to create the po-file for translations in my Django project. I'm having trouble with translations in templates being ignored when they contain in-line comments. Example:


{{{

{# Nice comment #} {%trans ""Translate me"" %}

}}}

The string 'Translate me' is not added to the po-file. I've traced the reason for this to the templatize method in trans_real.py. At the bottom of the method you'll find the following lines:

When running the makemessages management command 
{{{
 elif t.token_type == TOKEN_COMMENT:
    out.write(' # %s' % t.contents)
}}}

It appears that the comment is not blanked out, but kept and passed on to xgettext. The input for xgettext with the previous example will be:

{{{
# nice comment gettext('Translate me')
}}}

Which means xgettext interprets the entire line as a comment. I'm not really sure why gettext would need the comment in the first place, but the fix for me has been to just add a new line after the string, like so:

{{{
 elif t.token_type == TOKEN_COMMENT:
    out.write(' # %s\n' % t.contents)
}}}

Now the input for xgettext is:

{{{
# nice comment 
gettext('Translate me')
}}}

"	Bug	closed	Internationalization	1.4	Normal	fixed	makemessages, template, gettext, xgettext	madkinder@…	Accepted	1	0	0	0	1	0