Django i18n not recognizing language files
django, internationalization, translation
Solution
In your case you must put into `LOCALE_PATHS` absolute path to your locale directory, i.e.
LOCALE_PATHS = (
'/home/path_to_your_project/myproject/locale/',
)
I guess you've tried to set relative path there.
I had similiar problem: i've been using django 1.3 and my locale directory was in the root of my project, i.e. near settings.py and manage.py files. But when i create project with django 1.4, project directory structure have been changed: settings.py have moved into myproject/myproject folder. I still create `locale` folder in myproject/ (not in myproject/myproject). And with django 1.4 it is not working any more.
Reading documentation i understand, that django just can't find my `locale` folder. So solution that helps me - either move `locale` dir into myproject/myproject and don't set any `LOCALE_PATHS` OR leave `locale` dir in myproject/ path and add full path to it in settings.py in `LOCALE_PATHS` tuple.
Problem
On Django 1.4, I want to have two languages in my site, turkish('tr') and english('en'). This is my current setup: settings.py: ``` USE_I18N = True LANGUAGES = ( ('en', 'English'), ('tr', 'Turkish'), ) MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES = ( 'django.contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware', 'django.middleware.locale.LocaleMiddleware', # I have locale middleware 'django.middleware.common.CommonMiddleware', 'django.middleware.csrf.CsrfViewMiddleware', 'django.contrib.auth.middleware.AuthenticationMiddleware', 'django.contrib.messages.middleware.MessageMiddleware', ) LOCALE_PATHS = ( '/myproject/locale/', ) ``` And I have my locale files as such directory order: ``` #tr files /myproject/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/django.mo /myproject/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/django.po #en files /myproject/locale/en/LC_MESSAGES/django.mo /myproject/locale/en/LC_MESSAGES/django.po ``` And I still cannot see my translations, trying from my shell (it also doesn't work for templates as {% trans "Corporate" %}): ``` >>> from django.utils import translation >>> translation.activate('tr') >>> translation.ugettext('Corporate') u'Corporate' ``` Am I missing anything here? Weirdly, it translates for words like 'Home' as original Django has translations for these but not my translation files.