set_language not working in django internationalization

Question

I included the following in the settings.py:

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

LANGUAGE_CODE = 'en-us'

USE_I18N = True

marked the strings to be translated

_('Enterprise')     # _ is lazy translate

included this in my URLCOnf:

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

created the locale folder and did this:
```
python manage.py makemessages -l ru
```
translated the strings and did this:
```
python manage.py compilemessages
```

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?

This smells like an incorrect path issue... Check my answer to this question http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20518783/django-1-5-5-displays-original-en-strings-always-does-not-translate — Serafeim, Feb 21 '15 at 11:26
@Serafeim I definitely will when I have enough reputation :) — , Feb 25 '15 at 10:26

score 6 · Answer 1 · edited Feb 05 '19 at 15:22

6

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

edited Feb 05 '19 at 15:22

Igor Jerosimić

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answered Sep 09 '18 at 14:43

Mina Samy

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Does `django.middleware.locale.u` exist? I had to add `'django.middleware.locale.LocaleMiddleware'` – Igor Jerosimić Feb 04 '19 at 14:58
My fault it should be as follows django.middleware.locale.LocaleMiddleware – Mina Samy Feb 05 '19 at 15:04

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 21 '15 at 14:50

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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.

answered Feb 21 '15 at 14:50

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set_language not working in django internationalization

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