How can I translate Python error messages?

'msgid' is not empty. it's contents follows till the 'msgstr' string

the following will be a correct translation:

#: forum/forms/qanda.py:101 msgid "" "please use following characters in tags: letters , numbers, and characters " "'.-_'" msgstr "" "your translation blabla: blabla1 , blabla2, and blabla3 " "'.-_'"

This threw me too when I first picked up OSQA - I've never worked w/ Django before. There are some hardcoded strings in the application, but this isn't one of them. When using Django's i18n support, you provide the default string value which becomes both the display string and the message id. That way you don't have to manage separate message identifiers and separate translations and you see the actual message in code.

If this were a hardcoded string, that innocent looking underscore and parenthesis wouldn't be required. Take a look at the imports:

from django.utils.translation import ugettext as _

The msgid isn't actually empty, multi-line translations start with an empty string like this. Just enter a value for msgstr. See the Django Book for more - Chapter 18: Internationalization