Question

While trying to implement a translated version of a website, I came across the following problem:

Let say I have a model defined like that:

class Model(models.model)
    name=models.CharField(max_length=10)
    ...

To create some data (which are later displayed on a web page), I use a special view that includes lines like:

Model.objects.create(name = "testName",...)

I tried to implement the translation with the following code:

Model.objects.create(name = _("testName"),...)

If I import ugettext as _ , it just put the translated value of “testName” in the database.
If I import ugettext_lazy as _, I have an InterfaceError (more precisely Error binding parameter X - probably unsupported type.

I was wondering if such an initialization is possible of if I have to find some workarounds.

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Just store the english version in the db and only call ugettext/_lazy during output. This obviously only works as long as translations for those strings exist, otherwise it will display the english version either way…