Inconsistency in apostrophe symbols of translatable strings. And broken translations

[Mārtiņš Šulcs]

The usage of apostrophe symbols in source code is inconsistent, sometimes it's ’(0x2019), and other times it's '(0x27). From what I understand, gettext does not normalize this.
Looking at the translations of contrib.auth, there are several broken keys. For instance:

Message source - [Link](​https://github.com/django/django/blob/main/django/contrib/auth/password_validation.py#L266)
Correct id - [Link](​https://github.com/django/django/blob/main/django/contrib/auth/locale/lv/LC_MESSAGES/django.po#L270)
Wrong id - [Link](​https://github.com/django/django/blob/main/django/contrib/auth/locale/lt/LC_MESSAGES/django.po#L277)

Grepping shows there are other places where ’ is used in translatable strings but this is the place we encountered broken translation.

I'm not familiar with how Transifex operates and whether this should be fixed in the translation. However, the inconsistency in the source doesn't seem ideal.

[Mariusz Felisiak]

I'm not familiar with how Transifex operates and whether this should be fixed in the translation.

Yes, this should be fixed in Transifex by translators.

However, the inconsistency in the source doesn't seem ideal.

What kind of inconsistency are you talking about? We put efforts to improve typography of user facing strings everywhere in the source code (check out #30400).

[Mariusz Felisiak]

lt contains old strings with ' because no one has translated any new strings in it since 2017.

[Mārtiņš Šulcs]

Thanks. So it's supposed to be ’ everywhere. I will see how to report this in Transifex.

Just to understand how this works and what happened. Source messages get changed without updating the keys and that invalidates all the translations in Transifex so they need to be resubmitted?

[Mariusz Felisiak]

Source messages are updated on Transifex for each version (so you will find ’ there), however, we don't fetch translations for languages without any new translated strings. That's why there is ' in the source code for many-years untouched translations.