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RoverDar
RoverDar

Reputation: 441

Django Internationalization doesn't work (makemessages doesn't find .py file)

I'm trying to internationalize my Django site with I18N. When I do the makemessages. Bit that did not get the text of the view.py. I have done the following things: 

# my flow
PROJECT
- LOCALE
- MYSITE
  - urls.py
  - settings.py
- APP1
  - views.py
- APP2
- APP3      
manage.py

# settings.py
LANGUAGES = (
     ('it', 'Italiano'),
     ('en', 'English'),
            )
LANGUAGE_CODE = 'it'
USE_I18N = True
LOCALE_PATHS = ('home/project/locale/',)
MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES = ( ...
                      'django.middleware.locale.LocaleMiddleware',
                     )   
TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS = (...,
                      'django.core.context_processors.i18n',
                     )

 # views.py

 from django.utils.translation import ugettext as tra
 text = tra("this is a text")
 ...

 # template.html
 ...
 {% trans 'Dashboard' %}
 ....

from the root (where is manage.py) when I do "python manage.py makemessages.py en-l" I get only a django.po with text from html file and not from views.py. I also tried with "python manage.py makemessages.py en-l-e html,py" but it doesn't work. Where am I doing wrong?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 2042

Answers (1)

Martijn Pieters
Martijn Pieters

Reputation: 1125398

makemessages looks for very specific patterns in your code; tra() is not one of those patterns.

From the makemessages command source you can see the xgettext command line tool is instead instructed to look for: gettext_noop, gettext_lazy, ngettext_lazy, ugettext_noop, ugettext_lazy, ungettext_lazy, pgettext, npgettext, pgettext_lazy and npgettext_lazy (in addition to the _() callable).

Change your views.py code to:

from django.utils.translation import ugettext as _
text = _("this is a text")

to follow the widespread gettext conventions, or use:

from django.utils.translation import ugettext
text = ugettext("this is a text")

Best to stick to the original translation.* methods or _(), here.

Upvotes: 5

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