Django specific language for each user is not respected

Question

I need to change the default language for each user, but in my case the translation is not applied with the selected language. I store the preferred language for each user and set it as follows:

# set default language
    try:
        user_language_filter = UserFilters.objects.get(user=request.user, element__iexact='defaultLanguage')
        user_language = user_language_filter.value.lower()
    except UserFilters.DoesNotExist:
        user_language = 'en'

    if translation.LANGUAGE_SESSION_KEY in request.session:
        del request.session[translation.LANGUAGE_SESSION_KEY]

    translation.activate(user_language)
    request.session[translation.LANGUAGE_SESSION_KEY] = user_language

    print(translation.get_language())

Here I retrieve the stored language for the user and if not available, set it to 'en'. print() shows the correct language. In my settings I have:

MIDDLEWARE = [
    'django.contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware',
    'django.middleware.locale.LocaleMiddleware',
    'django.middleware.common.CommonMiddleware',
    ....
LANGUAGES = (
    ('en', _('English')),
    ('fr', _('French'))
)
LOCALE_PATHS = (
    os.path.join(BASE_DIR, '../locale'),
)

makemessages and compilemessages create the files correctly in the given path.

In my ListView I have:

def get_context_data(self, **kwargs):
    context = super(CompanyListView, self).get_context_data(**kwargs)
    context.update({
        'page_title': _('Manage Companies'),
    })

    return context

The text to translate is in the locale files and also translated. I also printed the {{ LANGUAGE_CODE }} in the template which shows the wrong one. And in the template the page_title is not translated. Every help is appreciated. Update Seems that the translate in the view is not performed. If in a template I use the {% trans 'to translate' %} this is translated as well ass the model fields in the ModelForms.

cwhisperer cwhisperer · Accepted Answer · 2020-04-28T17:02:37

I found that in the language .po file some translation are marked

#, fuzzy

and these translations are not shown.

Django specific language for each user is not respected

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