Language Translation

This project supports internationalization (i18n) and localization (l10n), the default language is English. To add a new language, please update Django settings, the code snippts below shows how to support Spanish.

LANGUAGES = [
    ('en', gettext('English')),
    ('es', gettext('Spanish')),
    # Add new langugage here
]

We use Django package modeltranslation to translate dynamic content of existing models to other languages.

# MODELTRANSLATION
MODELTRANSLATION_LANGUAGES = ('en', 'es') # Add new language here.

For detailed usage, please refer to https://django-modeltranslation.readthedocs.io/en/latest/.

Next, it takes three steps to finish the translation for localization.

  1. Create po file for the newly added language in locale folder, for example

python manage.py makemessages -l es

  1. Translate the messages in the po file, for example

#: client/templates/registration/login.html:65
msgid "Login"
msgstr "Iniciar sesión"

  1. Compile translated messages into mo files for use with the built-in gettext support.

python manage.py makemessages -l es