[unicode] Translation errors in the admin

[anonymous]

If I use admin application with unicode branch and LANGUAGE is different from django_language session variable, I have these problems:

Models in auth application are not localized - I think ugettext_lazy should by used for them. It can be solved for example by unicode-lazy-auth.diff patch.

If I apply this patch, new problems appear:

List of groups has bad header - not translation of word "group", but only django.utils.functional.proxy object. It can be solved for example by unicode-default-list-display.diff patch.

Help texts doesn't work - again django.utils.functional.proxy object is rendered. It can be solved for example by unicode-escape-help-text.diff patch.

List of deleted objects doesn'work - - again django.utils.functional.proxy object is rendered. It can be solved for example by unicode-deleted-objects.diff patch. (It happens also when I delete instance of django.contrib.admin.models.Site, so it doesn't depends on the first patch.)

[anonymous]

The summary should be "unicode-branch - something is too lazy and something is not lazy enough". I am sorry, I don't know how to change it.

[Malcolm Tredinnick]

In future, please file separate tickets for separate bugs; it makes it much easier to address things on a case-by-case basis.

Thanks for the report and attempts at fixes, though. It gives me a good of where to look.

• The first patch is correct.
• The second patch is the right idea, but needs a little tweaking (because the model might not have a __unicode__ method.
• The third patch is wrong, because help_text can contains links, etc, so should not be escaped. I'll fix it in another way.
• The fourth patch is correct.

[Malcolm Tredinnick]

The second patch was correct -- clearly the original submitter understands the code much better than I do. Third problem was indicative of a larger problem with resolve_variable() and the fourth problem was just a matter of coercing things to unicode correctly.

[Malcolm Tredinnick]

(In [5320]) unicode: Fixed a number of problems where lazily translated objects were not
being converted back to unicode strings correctly. Fixed #4359 and #4361.