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Rehmetjan
Rehmetjan

Reputation: 335

how to add new languages into Django? My language "Uyghur" or "Uighur" is not supported in Django

how to add new languages into Django? My language "Uyghur" or "Uighur" is not supported in Django.

Can I add new language locale file in my project and use it? for example: zh_UG

this language is not supported in Django.

Upvotes: 21

Views: 8254

Answers (7)

sodimel
sodimel

Reputation: 916

Good news!

Django 5.0 added support for the Uyghur language (link)!

Upvotes: 0

Saidmamad
Saidmamad

Reputation: 73

Just wanted to add that you need to run below commands despite whether you have added some translation to the files or not:

python manage.py makemessages -l tj
python manage.py compilemessages

Note that tj here is the new added language

Upvotes: 0

Timur Abdymazhinov
Timur Abdymazhinov

Reputation: 11

# add Kyrgyz lang 
###########################################################
from django.conf import global_settings
gettext = lambda s: s
LANGUAGES = (
    ('ru', gettext('Russia')),
    ('ky', gettext('Kyrgyz')),
)
EXTRA_LANG_INFO = {
    'ky': {
        'bidi': False,
        'code': 'ky',
        'name': 'Kyrgyz',
        'name_local': u"Кыргызча",
    },
}

import django.conf.locale
from django.conf import global_settings
import django.conf.locale
LANG_INFO = dict(django.conf.locale.LANG_INFO, **EXTRA_LANG_INFO)
django.conf.locale.LANG_INFO = LANG_INFO
global_settings.LANGUAGES = global_settings.LANGUAGES + [("ky", 'Кыргызча')]

import os
PACKAGE_ROOT = os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(__file__))
LOCALE_PATHS = (
    os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'locale'),
)
###########################################################

Upvotes: 1

laffuste
laffuste

Reputation: 17105

Add a non available language to your Django app

ISO language code of Uighur ئۇيغۇر تىلى is 'ug'.

In your settings.py:

from django.conf import global_settings

gettext_noop = lambda s: s

LANGUAGES = (
       ('ug', gettext_noop('Uighur')),
)

EXTRA_LANG_INFO = {
    'ug': {
        'bidi': True, # right-to-left
        'code': 'ug',
        'name': 'Uighur',
        'name_local': u'\u0626\u06C7\u064A\u063A\u06C7\u0631 \u062A\u0649\u0644\u0649', #unicode codepoints here
    },
}

# Add custom languages not provided by Django
import django.conf.locale
LANG_INFO = dict(django.conf.locale.LANG_INFO, **EXTRA_LANG_INFO)
django.conf.locale.LANG_INFO = LANG_INFO

# Languages using BiDi (right-to-left) layout
LANGUAGES_BIDI = global_settings.LANGUAGES_BIDI + ["ug"]

And:

manage.py makemessages -l ug
manage.py compilemessages

Upvotes: 31

Kirill Kniazev
Kirill Kniazev

Reputation: 91

If someone encounters this, and will use the accepted answer (also check the comments on it) and still will have a redirect to /en/ instead of extra language - you need to create the .mo file for that locale. At least a dummy one.

Django checks if language is valid by checking if it can load the .mo file. There is no issue for standard languages because Django is shipped with a bunch of them, but for your custom language it doesn't exists.

I hope that will save your time.

Upvotes: 4

c2j
c2j

Reputation: 139

Based on laffuste's answer. First step, add language define in settings.py:

EXTRA_LANG_INFO = {
    'ms': {
        'bidi': False, # right-to-left
        'code': 'ms',
        'name': 'Bahasa Melayu',
        'name_local': u'Bahasa Melayu', #unicode codepoints here
    },
}

# Add custom languages not provided by Django
import django.conf.locale
from django.conf import global_settings
LANG_INFO = dict(django.conf.locale.LANG_INFO.items() + EXTRA_LANG_INFO.items())
django.conf.locale.LANG_INFO = LANG_INFO

# Languages using BiDi (right-to-left) layout
global_settings.LANGUAGES = global_settings.LANGUAGES + (("ms",'Bahasa Melayu'),)

Second step, Add locale in settings.py:

import os

PACKAGE_ROOT = os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(__file__))
LOCALE_PATHS = (
    os.path.join(PACKAGE_ROOT, 'locale'),
)

Third step, Add locale defines in locale directory.

Upvotes: 12

mossplix
mossplix

Reputation: 3865

in your settings.py add

gettext = lambda s: s


LANGUAGES = (
    ('zh_UG', gettext('Uyghur')),
    ('en', gettext('English')),
)
USE_I18N = True

run 


manage.py makemessages -l zh_UG

to create language files

Upvotes: 2

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