Django Internationalization (I18N) not changing text

Question

I created an simple website to test internationalization, but I can't make it work the way I wanted. I would like to change messages in my views.py without checking the request.LANGUAGE_CODE (which is showing correctly).

I can go to the urls with prefix /en/ and /pt-br/ but they don't change the text in the template.

I tried running

django-admin makemessages --locale=pt_BR

I changed the lines

#: mytest/views.py:7
msgid "Welcome to my site."
msgstr "Bem vindo ao meu site."

ran

django-admin compilemessages --locale=pt_BR

PS: (even though it is wrong, I tried django-admin makemessages/compilemessages --locale=pt-br as well)

What I changed in settings.py (added my app, added locale middleware, added some internalization settings)

INSTALLED_APPS = [
    'django.contrib.admin',
    'django.contrib.auth',
    'django.contrib.contenttypes',
    'django.contrib.sessions',
    'django.contrib.messages',
    'django.contrib.staticfiles',
    'mytest'
]
MIDDLEWARE = [
    'django.middleware.security.SecurityMiddleware',
    'django.contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware',
    'django.middleware.locale.LocaleMiddleware',
    'django.middleware.common.CommonMiddleware',
    'django.middleware.csrf.CsrfViewMiddleware',
    'django.contrib.auth.middleware.AuthenticationMiddleware',
    'django.contrib.messages.middleware.MessageMiddleware',
    'django.middleware.clickjacking.XFrameOptionsMiddleware',
]
# Internationalization
# https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.10/topics/i18n/

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

LANGUAGE_CODE = 'en-us'

from django.utils.translation import ugettext_lazy as _
LANGUAGES = [
  ('pt-br', _('Portuguese')),
  ('en', _('English')),
]

TIME_ZONE = 'UTC'
USE_I18N = True
USE_L10N = True
USE_TZ = True

views.py

from django.shortcuts import render
from django.utils.translation import ugettext_lazy as _

def index(request):
    print(request.LANGUAGE_CODE) #this shows correctly the prefix in the url
    output = _("Welcome to my site.")
    context = {"test_translate": output}
    return render(request, "mytest/index.html", context)

urls.py

from django.conf.urls.i18n import i18n_patterns
from mytest import views

urlpatterns = [
]
urlpatterns += i18n_patterns(
    url(r'^$', views.index, name='index'),
)

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 04 '16 at 04:13

I think my path was not correct. I believe the extra slash was wrong... I deleted /translations/ from the LOCALE_PATH and it is working now.

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

Then I run

django-admin compilemessages -l pt_BR

Modify the *.po generated and run

django-admin compilemessages -l pt_BR

I also renamed en-us to en in LANGUAGE_CODE = 'en-us'

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 08 '19 at 06:38

Please follow this steps.

1) Create folder 'locale' in root.

2) Add middeleware

.....
'django.middleware.common.CommonMiddleware',
'django.middleware.locale.LocaleMiddleware',
....

3) In settings.py Set

USE_L10N = True

LANGUAGE_CODE = 'pt-BR'

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

LANGUAGES = (
    ('pt_BR', 'Portuguese'),
)

4) Run following commands

$ django-admin makemessages -l pt_BR -i env
$ django-admin compilemessages -l pt_BR

5) Then update required translated text in locale > pt_BR > LC_MESSAGES > django.po then again run

$ django-admin compilemessages -l pt_BR

so why is the language code "pt-BR" but the folder name for the translation files is "pt_BR"? — Brian, Nov 13 '19 at 01:02

Django Internationalization (I18N) not changing text

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