Django i18n: Common causes for translations not appearing

Question

I am making a multilingual Django website. I created a messages file, populated and compiled it. I checked the site (the admin in this case,) in my wanted language (Hebrew) and most phrases appear in Hebrew like they should, but some don't. I checked the source and these still appear as _('Whatever') like they should, also they are translated on the messages file, and yes, I remembered to do compilemessages.

What are some common causes for translations not to appear like that?

Answer 1

A problable cause is Lazy Translation.

In example, in views.py you should use ugettext:

from django.utils.translation import ugettext as _

But in models.py, you should use ugettext_lazy:

from django.utils.translation import ugettext_lazy as _

Answer 2

Maybe the translated strings are marked as fuzzy?