How do you handle translation of text with markup?

Question

I\'m developing multi-language support for our web app. We\'re using Django\'s helpers around the gettext library. Everything has been surprisingly easy, except for the ques

Answer 1

Interesting question, I'll be having this problem very soon. I think I'll go for 2, without any kind of tricky stuff. HTML markup is simple, urls won't move anytime soon, and if anything is changed a new entry will be created in django.po, so we get a chance to review the translation ( ex: a script should check for empty translations after makemessages ).

So, in template :

{% load i18n %}
{% trans 'hello world' %}

... then, after python manage.py makemessages I get in my django.po

#: templates/out.html:3
msgid "hello world"
msgstr ""

I change it to my needs

#: templates/out.html:3
msgid "hello world"
msgstr "bonjour monde"

... and in the simple yet frequent cases I'll encounter, it won't be worth any further trouble. The other solutions here seems quite smart but I don't think the solution to markup problems is more markup. Plus, I want to avoid too much confusing stuff inside templates.

Your templates should be quite stable after a while, I guess, but I don't know what other trouble you expect. If the content changes over and over, perhaps that content's place is not inside the template but inside a model.

Edit: I just checked it out in the documentation, if you ever need variables inside a translation, there is blocktrans.