After looking at the trying all of the recommendations I could find on this subject, my translations still do not work whatsoever.
/settings.py file
# Language code for this installation. All choices can be found here:
# http://www.i18nguy.com/unicode/language-identifiers.html
LANGUAGE_CODE = 'en-us'
LOCALE_PATHS = (
'/Users/samb/Projects/transtest/locale'
)
# Custom Languages
ugettext = lambda s: s
LANGUAGES = (
('de', ugettext('German')),
('en', ugettext('English')),
('fr', ugettext('French')),
('fr-CA', ugettext('French Canadian')),
)
SITE_ID = 1
# If you set this to False, Django will make some optimizations so as not
# to load the internationalization machinery.
USE_I18N = True
# If you set this to False, Django will not format dates, numbers and
# calendars according to the current locale.
USE_L10N = True
MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES = (
'django.middleware.common.CommonMiddleware',
'django.contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware',
'django.middleware.locale.LocaleMiddleware',
'django.middleware.csrf.CsrfViewMiddleware',
'django.contrib.auth.middleware.AuthenticationMiddleware',
'django.contrib.messages.middleware.MessageMiddleware',
# Uncomment the next line for simple clickjacking protection:
# 'django.middleware.clickjacking.XFrameOptionsMiddleware',
)
view.py
from django.shortcuts import render_to_response
from django.template import RequestContext
def trans(request):
return render_to_response('index.html', context_instance=RequestContext(request))
my template file (index.html)
{% load i18n %}
{% get_current_language as LANGUAGE_CODE %}
{% get_available_languages as LANGUAGES %}
<html>
<head>
<title>translations</title>
</head>
<body>
{% for l in LANGUAGES %}
{{ l }}<br />
{% endfor %}
{{ LANGUAGE_CODE }}<br />
{% trans "Welcome to my site" %}
</body>
</html>
po file (that has been compiled) located at /Users/samb/Projects/transtest/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES
#: transtest/templates/index.html:13
msgid "Welcome to my site"
msgstr "Please work"
I can never get the 'Welcome to my site' to work. The LANGUAGES and LANGUAGE_CODE variables in my template are all working (unless I 'Accept_language: fr_CA').
After reading all the other posts on this subject and still having the same problem, I feel like I must have a silly mistake, or am missing a vital step entirely. Any thoughts?
Update: This is how I am testing the translation:
telnet localhost 8000
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
GET /
Accept_language: fr
<html>
<head>
<title>Translations</title>
</head>
<body>
('de', u'Allemand')<br />
('en', u'Anglais')<br />
('fr', u'Fran\xe7ais')<br />
('fr-CA', u'French Canadian')<br />
fr<br />
Welcome to my site
</body>
</html>
Connection closed by foreign host.
I noticed that the languages are getting translated, but the 'Welcome to my site' is not.