I have a Django app (on Google App Engine) that I wish to internationalize.
settings.py:
USE_I18N = True
LANGUAGE_CODE = 'en'
# Restrict supported languages (and JS media generation)
LANGUAGES = (
('en', 'English'),
('fr', 'French'),
)
MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES = (
'ragendja.middleware.ErrorMiddleware',
'django.contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware',
# i18n
'django.middleware.locale.LocaleMiddleware',
...
I have generated .po and .mo files for my app in locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES (though not at the global level).
I set my browser Accept-Language heading to "fr" and Django ignores it. When I look at request.LANGUAGE_CODE it is always "en".
I can tell the browser is proper because I visit some other i18n-aware site and it returns French.
How do I find what Django thinks is missing about my setup?
I saw this question and it didn't help me.
I am running Django 1.0 using app engine patch 1.0.2.2 on Google App Engine.
There's a certain order that Django does things in terms of i18n.
First it checks LANGUAGE_CODE
. It's the site-wide language and if nothing else is set, this is the language the user gets.
Second, since you've added the LocaleMiddleware
, it checks if django_language
is set in the user session. I would suggest clearing the session information in the DB or creating a completely new user to try with.
Third, it checks if there's a django_language
cookie set (or, actually, the name of the cookie is defined by the LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME
). I would suggest deleting this cookie.
Fourth, it looks for the Accept-Language
HTTP header. Which is where your browser setting comes in.
Good luck!
Taken from this page, you can remove the HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE
from the request and fall back on the LocaleMiddleware
:
class ForceDefaultLanguageMiddleware(object):
"""
Ignore Accept-Language HTTP headers
This will force the I18N machinery to always choose settings.LANGUAGE_CODE
as the default initial language, unless another one is set via sessions or cookies
Should be installed *before* any middleware that checks request.META['HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE'],
namely django.middleware.locale.LocaleMiddleware
"""
def process_request(self, request):
if request.META.has_key('HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE'):
del request.META['HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE']