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Mir Stephen
Mir Stephen

Reputation: 1927

Django internationalization doesn't work in my project

I read the documentation, read some blogs and started applying internationalization in my project, but it doesn't work. Probably something is going wrong. Please take a look what is it that I am doing wrong.

I am a windows user, so I started installing gettext versions both shared and static from this link. then I made following changes in settings.py:

LANGUAGE_CODE = 'fr'

MIDDLEWARE = [
    "django.middleware.locale.LocaleMiddleware",
    ...
]

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

I already set the language code to French language. Then in my template namely index.html I added following code:

{% load i18n %}

<!-- within block content -->
{% trans "Hi" %}

Now that everything is set I run following code in console:

django-admin makemessages -l fr

I received this message:

UnicodeDecodeError: skipped file requirements.txt in . (reason: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xff in position 0: invalid start byte)
processing locale fr

I have no idea if above stated error has anything to do with translating the text of the template. Anyway, then in django.po within locale directory I translated that text of template to french as following:

#: .\templates\index.html:29
msgid "Hi"
msgstr "Salut"

and run django-admin compilemessages, but when I run it the text is not translated. I don't know why? I followed every step for this basic setup.

Thank you for time and reading.

edit: This is the app structure of my project. Apologies that I don't know other way other than taking its screenshot. The translation content is in index.html

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Upvotes: 1

Views: 377

Answers (1)

Floydovich
Floydovich

Reputation: 106

Having a similar project structure, it worked for me set LOCALE_PATH to

LOCALE_PATH = (os.path.join(PROJECT_DIR, "locale"),)

and put my locale directory into portfolio/portfolio directory.

Upvotes: 1

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