How to install a translation ".po" in django app?

Question

I finished a few days ago, creating a translation file for Django-LFS (Lightning Fast Shop) for my native language (pt_BR). Now that it's done, I need to install the ".po" file that I downloaded after finishing my translation in Transifex.

Ok, I downloaded the file, but now that I need to install it, I just can't figure how. I tried putting the file in 'lfs-installer' folder, using "bin/django compilemessages -a", tried the same thing but with the file in many different folders, but I just can't make my LFS use my translation file...

Does anyone know how to make a translation package work on lfs? Or am I doing something wrong?

Thanks

jellyfish · Answer 1 · 2011-09-07T14:15:29.923

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put you .po file in the path:

<your_django_project>/conf/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/

and run django-admin makemessages -a

edited Sep 07 '11 at 14:15

answered Sep 07 '11 at 14:10

jellyfish

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didn't work... after doing that I restarted the server, but all the strings were still in english... – Uriel Bertoche Sep 07 '11 at 16:00
check LANGUAGE_CODE option in settings.py is not "en-en" – jellyfish Sep 07 '11 at 16:25

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 23 '13 at 19:40

I made it to work using the following settings:

import os
DIRNAME = os.path.dirname(__file__)

USE_I18N = True
USE_L10N = True

LANGUAGE_CODE = 'pt-br'
LANGUAGES = (
    ('pt-br', u"Português"),
)

LOCALE_PATHS = [
    DIRNAME + '/locale',
]

Than create a locale folder aside of the settings.py folder and follow Django official instructions. The desired path for your django.po file is: locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/django.po. After that, use compilemessages tool and restart the server.

It should work.

Tip: django-lfs uses locale module to handle currency display, but there is a bug for locale module that makes it to show 1234,00 R$ instead of R$ 1234,00. If it bites you, put the following into your settings.py:

# Fix for LC_MONETARY bug: http://www.sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1294
import locale
locale._override_localeconv.update({'p_cs_precedes': 1, 'n_cs_precedes': 1})

Good luck.

score 0 · Answer 3 · edited Dec 20 '11 at 13:13

If you do not already have one, create a folder called Locale. Then in your settings.py folder you must tell it where to find the locale paths. Something like this:

LOCALE_PATHS{
C:/sdalfjasd/dfalsdjkf/locale
}

Also make sure you have locale middleware in your middleware...

You can probably effectively track down that syntax and specifics, now that I pointed you in the right direction.

Once you have those things set up, you can run your makemessage -a command, which will create a folder in your locale folder for the -a you put in. Then you can browse to this, inside it there should be a .po file (there might not be). If there is not, just put your .po file you made in there.

Then browse to your project in your CMD, and run compilemessages -a. This should compile your .po files into .mo files, the files necessary for translations to work.

Hopefully I did not go crazy off-track...

How to install a translation ".po" in django app?

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