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-rw-r--r--docs/ref/django-admin.txt4
-rw-r--r--docs/topics/i18n/translation.txt7
2 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/docs/ref/django-admin.txt b/docs/ref/django-admin.txt
index 78efcf0afb..5e17ff8f8d 100644
--- a/docs/ref/django-admin.txt
+++ b/docs/ref/django-admin.txt
@@ -160,7 +160,7 @@ are excluded.
.. django-admin-option:: --use-fuzzy, -f
-Includes fuzzy translations into compiled files.
+Includes `fuzzy translations`_ into compiled files.
Example usage::
@@ -173,6 +173,8 @@ Example usage::
django-admin compilemessages -x pt_BR
django-admin compilemessages -x pt_BR -x fr
+.. _fuzzy translations: https://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/html_node/Fuzzy-Entries.html
+
.. django-admin-option:: --ignore PATTERN, -i PATTERN
.. versionadded:: 3.0
diff --git a/docs/topics/i18n/translation.txt b/docs/topics/i18n/translation.txt
index 5fdf8f0a4e..1aa46d8122 100644
--- a/docs/topics/i18n/translation.txt
+++ b/docs/topics/i18n/translation.txt
@@ -1619,6 +1619,13 @@ otherwise, they'll be tacked together without whitespace!
files are created). This means that everybody will be using the same
encoding, which is important when Django processes the PO files.
+.. admonition:: Fuzzy entries
+
+ :djadmin:`makemessages` sometimes generates translation entries marked as
+ fuzzy, e.g. when translations are inferred from previously translated
+ strings. By default, fuzzy entries are **not** processed by
+ :djadmin:`compilemessages`.
+
To reexamine all source code and templates for new translation strings and
update all message files for **all** languages, run this::