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sergzach
sergzach

Reputation: 6754

Django Localization: How to Use a Non-English Language as 'Translate-From' Language

The problem is: if I set the English language as the primary language ( LANGUAGE_CODE = 'en' ) then all works fine. If we request the site from a browser with an English locale we see the English variant and analogically for a browser with a Russian locale.

But if I set LANGUAGE_CODE = 'ru' then we see the Russian variant in any case.

So why the English language is default and used by Django as msgid?

Please see the settings of my project below.

In my settings.py I try to set not English language as primary language:

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

Then I have en/LC_MESSAGES/django.po:

msgid "SITE_MAIN_TITLE"
msgstr "D'argent: Cosmetics, Hair Care, Parfume"

And ru/LC_MESSAGES/django.po:

msgid "SITE_MAIN_TITLE"
msgstr "D'argent – косметика, средства по уходу за волосами, парфюмерия"

In template HTML:

...
<title>{% block title %}{% trans "SITE_MAIN_TITLE" %}{% endblock %}</title>
...

Upvotes: 2

Views: 2855

Answers (1)

Ankhaa
Ankhaa

Reputation: 1138

IF you use this 'django.middleware.locale.LocaleMiddleware' middleware.

https://github.com/django/django/blob/master/django/utils/translation/trans_real.py#L366

see get_language_from_request function. Understand how to choose default language code. May be never used that settings.LANGUAGE_CODE ;).

Upvotes: 1

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