help_text on auth model field 'is_active' doesn't get translated

[Wenze van Klink]

When I set the admin language to Dutch (nl) not all the sentences are showing in Dutch. But the sentences are available in the .po file. So it seems something else is wrong. See image, the active field is translated but not the help text.

[Claude Paroz]

Could you please specify the exact version of Django you are using? Are you using a custom user model or the standard from contrib.auth.models.User?

[Wenze van Klink]

Django==1.8.3

I'm using a custom user model: AUTH_USER_MODEL = 'authtools.User'

​https://github.com/fusionbox/django-authtools

[Tim Graham]

Looks like the issue is specific to permission names which is a duplicate of #1688, #11105, #12396, #13861.

[Wenze van Klink]

To me it seems that this isn't a permission in the database. Because it is available in the .po translation file, the permissions are not. It is a 'help_text' on the model, see: ​https://github.com/django/django/blob/master/django/contrib/auth/models.py#L328

And 'superuserstatus' and 'staffstatus' do get translated correctly, which are the same type of fields?

[Claude Paroz]

I think the problem is that the string in django-authtools is not identical to the one from django.contrib.auth. See ​https://github.com/fusionbox/django-authtools/blob/master/authtools/models.py#L35 and look at the double space after the point.