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| -rw-r--r-- | docs/topics/i18n.txt | 9 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/docs/topics/i18n.txt b/docs/topics/i18n.txt index 8ba2f9c89f..00cfd18ff7 100644 --- a/docs/topics/i18n.txt +++ b/docs/topics/i18n.txt @@ -184,10 +184,11 @@ If you don't like the verbose name ``ugettext_lazy``, you can just alias it as class MyThing(models.Model): name = models.CharField(help_text=_('This is the help text')) -Always use lazy translations in :ref:`Django models <topics-db-models>`. It's a -good idea to add translations for the field names and table names, too. This -means writing explicit ``verbose_name`` and ``verbose_name_plural`` options in -the ``Meta`` class, though:: +Always use lazy translations in :ref:`Django models <topics-db-models>`. +Field names and table names should be marked for translation or else they +will not be translated in the admin interface. This means writing explicit +``verbose_name`` and ``verbose_name_plural`` options in the ``Meta`` class, +though:: from django.utils.translation import ugettext_lazy as _ |