I’ve made a Django third party app, which I’m using in a Django project, running in Docker Compose. I want to translate ValidationError messages from the app inside the project, but the makemessages command doesn’t detect them. I thought, I’ll just add them manually, but when I call makemessages after that, my manually added translations are commented out.
I’ve looked for solutions, and found those SO-posts
Django translations of third party apps
Django's I18N with third-party apps
The posts explain that I should be using symlinks, but I have had no success of doing it (same results as above), see an example below:
docker-compose exec web ln -s /usr/local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/mypackage ./
docker-compose exec web python manage.py makemessages --locale=da --symlinks
So I’m looking for help, what am I doing wrong or could I do something else? Maybe translate the messages inside the third party app itself like Django Rest Framework does?
I hope you can help, very much looking forward for anything that can point me in the right direction.
