CODEWITHSUNDEEP
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user4591041
user4591041

Reputation:

set_language not working in django internationalization

  1. I included the following in the settings.py:

    LANGUAGES = (
    ('en', 'English'),
    ('ru', 'Russian'),
)

LANGUAGE_CODE = 'en-us'

USE_I18N = True

  2. marked the strings to be translated

    _('Enterprise')     # _ is lazy translate

  3. included this in my URLCOnf:

    url(r'^i18n/', include('django.conf.urls.i18n'))

  4. created the locale folder and did this:

    python manage.py makemessages -l ru

  5. translated the strings and did this:

    python manage.py compilemessages

  6. wrote this form:

    <form action="/i18n/setlang/" method="post">
        {% csrf_token %}
        <input name="next" type="hidden" value="/" />
        <select name="language">
           {% for lang in LANGUAGES %}
           <option value="{{ lang.0 }}">{{ lang.1 }}</option>
           {% endfor %}
        </select>
        <input type="submit" value="Translate" />
 </form>

I think I did all the steps to make it work but seems like I doing something wrong or missing something.

When use the form and try to translate and print request.LANGUAGE_CODE, it is showing me expected value. But the strings remain in the same language as they were

What is wrong here?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2112

Answers (2)

Mina Samy
Mina Samy

Reputation: 96

Probably you forgot to add the locale middleware into your settings file it should look like this

'django.contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware',
'django.middleware.locale.LocaleMiddleware', 
'django.middleware.common.CommonMiddleware',

You should take into consideration that the locale middleware should preced the commonmiddleware And comes after the Sessionmiddleware As it takes it argument from the session middleware

Upvotes: 6

GwynBleidD
GwynBleidD

Reputation: 20539

You should define your LOCALE_PATHS in settings.py file like this

LOCALE_PATHS = (
    os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'locale/'),
)

django doesn't by default look for locale dir in root of project.

Upvotes: 1

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