What's the correct way to set up Django translation?
Add LOCALE_PATHS
to settings.py
and set it as below:
import os
BASE_DIR = os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(__file__))
LOCALE_PATHS = (
os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'locale'),
)
Note that LOCALE_PATHS
must be a tuple (look at the comma at the end of the path).
Now based on LOCALE_PATHS
, the locale
folder should be in the root of your project.
And be sure that you run the commands django-admin.py makemessages -l de
and django-admin.py compilemessages
from the root of your project.
djPrj
|
+---> djPrj
|
+---> djApp
|
+---> locale
|
+---> templates
Also rearrange your MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES
to be LocaleMiddleware
after SessionMiddleware
and before CommonMiddleware
as mentioned here:
MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES = (
'django.contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware',
'django.middleware.locale.LocaleMiddleware',
'django.middleware.common.CommonMiddleware',
'django.middleware.csrf.CsrfViewMiddleware',
'django.contrib.auth.middleware.AuthenticationMiddleware',
'django.contrib.messages.middleware.MessageMiddleware',
'django.middleware.clickjacking.XFrameOptionsMiddleware',
)
Restart your service (python manage.py runserver
) and check again.
Just to ensure that your localization is applied to your Django admin page with the default django.mo
file of Django, do the following test:
First in main urls.py
of project replace patterns
with i18n_patterns
:
from django.conf.urls.i18n import i18n_patterns
urlpatterns = i18n_patterns('',
url(r'^admin/', include(admin.site.urls)),
# ...
)
Now go to the admin page with a de
prefix, like: http://127.0.0.1:8000/de/admin/
And the admin page should be shown in German.
OK, are you able to see the admin page of Django in German?
Also check your view with the de
prefix too.
According to your project code, some sentences are not in trans
blocks. Put them as:
{% trans "your sentence" %}
Also you must use ugettext_lazy
instead of ugettext
in your code for views and models (Read here and here.)
Replace this:
from django.utils.translation import ugettext as _
with:
from django.utils.translation import ugettext_lazy as _
And now everything will work.
In my case, I used en-gb as the parameter to run
django-admin.py makemessages -l en-gb
Instead, it should be en_GB.
django-admin.py makemessages -l en_GB
Please set translated string
in django.po
and then use python manage.py compilemessages
for e.g
#: path/to/python/module.py:23
msgid "Welcome to my site."
msgstr "put appropriate translated string here"
Suggestion-: You can use django-rosetta
package to add translated string
from UI interface. It is easy to add T-string from django-admin. https://github.com/mbi/django-rosetta