Reputation: 671
I'm trying to internationalize a django application. I followed the tutorial, but when i run ...
./manage.py makemessages --all
... django only creates a .po file that contains the translations of my settings.py (see below). It completely ignores anything inside my app and its templates.
This is my file structure:
myproject
|- myproject
|- course
|- templates
|- static
|- ...
|- apps.py
|- models.py
|- views.py
|- ...
|- locale
|- myproject
|- settings.py
|- ...
|- manage.py
My settings file looks like this:
from django.utils.translation import ugettext_lazy as _
...
INSTALLED_APPS = [
...
'course.apps.CourseConfig',
]
MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES = [
...
'django.contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware',
'django.middleware.locale.LocaleMiddleware',
'django.middleware.common.CommonMiddleware',
...
]
TEMPLATES = [
{
'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
'DIRS': [],
'APP_DIRS': False,
'OPTIONS': {
'context_processors': [
'django.template.context_processors.debug',
'django.template.context_processors.i18n',
'django.template.context_processors.request',
'django.contrib.auth.context_processors.auth',
'django.contrib.messages.context_processors.messages',
],
},
},
]
LANGUAGE_CODE = 'en-us'
TIME_ZONE = 'CET'
USE_I18N = True
USE_L10N = True
USE_TZ = True
LANGUAGES = [
('en', _('English')),
('kr', _('Korean')),
('cn', _('Chinese')),
('pt', _('Portuguese')),
]
LOCALE_PATHS = (
os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'locale'),
)
My templates contain translation texts:
{% extends "course/base.html" %}
{% load i18n %}
{% trans "Back to modules" %}
...
If I run the 'makemessages' command, the only thing that's being included in the .po file is the language names in the settings.py file, but not the template variables or anything I translated with ugettext in a view.
# SOME DESCRIPTIVE TITLE.
# Copyright (C) YEAR THE PACKAGE'S COPYRIGHT HOLDER
# This file is distributed under the same license as the PACKAGE package.
# FIRST AUTHOR <EMAIL@ADDRESS>, YEAR.
#
#, fuzzy
msgid ""
msgstr ""
"Project-Id-Version: PACKAGE VERSION\n"
"Report-Msgid-Bugs-To: \n"
"POT-Creation-Date: 2016-01-30 20:25+0100\n"
"PO-Revision-Date: YEAR-MO-DA HO:MI+ZONE\n"
"Last-Translator: FULL NAME <EMAIL@ADDRESS>\n"
"Language-Team: LANGUAGE <[email protected]>\n"
"Language: \n"
"MIME-Version: 1.0\n"
"Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8\n"
"Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\n"
#: myproject/settings.py:146
msgid "English"
msgstr ""
#: myproject/settings.py:147
msgid "Korean"
msgstr ""
#: myproject/settings.py:148
msgid "Chinese"
msgstr ""
#: myproject/settings.py:149
msgid "Portuguese"
msgstr ""
Can anyone tell what I'm missing? The app works just fine, all templates are found at runtime. Thanks a lot.
Upvotes: 1
Views: 3550
Reputation: 671
I finally found the "problem". I had to go into the directory of my django app course
and then run ../manage.py makemessages -l en
, etc. from there again. Then, the files were created and everything worked just fine. Django docs were not really explicit about me having to cd
into my each app.
Upvotes: 6