Stop Django from creating fuzzy entries

Django Internals Internationalization
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Hello,
I’m translating Django into my language and it creates some fuzzy entries in the .po file.

One of them is Permissions from django.contrib.auth and the other one is Permission denied from a library I’ve installed.

I know this happens when Django thinks those two entries are similar, but in this case they have a completely different meaning and purpose. Also, none of them are from my own apps.

Is there a way to stop makemessages command to create fuzzy entries?

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There is a won’t fix ticket for Django here where you can read some rationales behind the decision:

https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/10852

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We’re using an automated translation pipeline where some amount of “extra” translation is preferable over manual resolution of fuzzy entries. Thus, we’re very interested in this topic – appreciate the question and response as it led me to a workable solution.

Per discussion in https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/10852 (linked by @claudep), it’s now possible to subclass the makemessages command and add an additional option for disabling “fuzzy entries” entirely. Add a file called commands/makemessages.py in any Django INSTALLED_APP which has content along these lines:

from django.core.management.commands import makemessages

class Command(makemessages.Command):
    msgmerge_options = makemessages.Command.msgmerge_options + ["--no-fuzzy-matching"]

Knowing this would have saved me some time/digging, paying it forward for anyone else coming across this.

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