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diff --git a/docs/translation.txt b/docs/translation.txt index 21d947d1d6..637719b879 100644 --- a/docs/translation.txt +++ b/docs/translation.txt @@ -172,6 +172,16 @@ two tags:: All tags live in the ``i18n`` tag library, so you need to specify ``{% load i18n %}`` in the head of your template to make use of them. +There are some places where you will encounter constant strings in your template code. +One is filter arguments, the other are normal string constants for tags. If you need to +translate those, you can use the ``_("....")`` syntax:: + + {% some_special_tag _("Page not found") value|yesno:_("yes,no") %} + +In this case both the filter and the tag will see the already translated string, so they +don't need to be aware of translations. And both strings will be pulled out of the templates +for translation and stored in the .po files. + The ``setlang`` redirect view ----------------------------- |