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9753	makemessages failed on long Chinese text	Will	nobody	"1. Enclose a Chinese string longer than 76 Chinese characters by {% trans """" %}, e.g., ""四千年前有一个姑娘叫姜嫄，她有一天觉得很空虚，就到郊外玩，看见一只巨人脚印，也许是外星人留下的，她想上去比一比，看看谁的脚丫子更大，就踩上去。踩上去就发现肚子里乱动，跟怀了孕似的。回去以后，肚子里的小孩，又老不出来，过了十二个月才生下来。""

2. Run django-admin.py makemessages -l en -e htm

3. You will see an error. I don't remember the exact error message, but basically it means ""a string ends unexpectedly"", probably because the code doesn't handle multi-byte characters correctly and truncates it at the middle of a Chinese character. A same length English string works fine.

4. Because of it, we have to write our program in English, and then provide the Chinese version, using Django's internationalization tools."		closed	Internationalization	1.0		fixed	django-admin.py makemessages	1.0.2	Design decision needed	0	0	0	0	0	0