pgettext not showing the untranslated value in django admin

Question

I have a model field:

title = models.CharField(pgettext_lazy('context', 'title'), max_length=255)

When I use ugettext_lazy it displays the untranslated string. (in this case 'title')

But with pgettext_lazy it becomes an empty string. (it hides the title label in the admin)

Is this standard behaviour of pgettext? Am I missing something?

.po file contents:

msgctxt "context"
msgid "title"
msgstr ""

Do you have something about source string in .po file? Maybe there's a space symbol as a translation or something like that? pgettext seems to be working fine for me — ilvar, Feb 21 '12 at 02:50
The source in my .po files seem normal. I added it to the question. how did you test it? — Sander van Leeuwen, Feb 21 '12 at 08:26

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 19 '12 at 10:18

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This is the solution:

pgettext_lazy(u'context', u'title')

answered Apr 19 '12 at 10:18

Sander van Leeuwen · Answer 2 · 2012-04-19T10:07:31.053

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Found it. pgettext_lazy returns a proxy object. Casting to unicode does the trick:

unicode(pgettext_lazy('context', 'title'))

EDIT:

This is not the answer. Because this way manage.py makemessages doesn't pick up the line as 'marked translated'.

edited Apr 19 '12 at 10:07

answered Feb 21 '12 at 08:56

2 Answers2