East Meets West When Translating Django Apps
summary
A Django admin front end for a family sales app is built, deployed to Heroku, and uses Amazon s3 for images; language switching works via flag widgets that toggle English and simplified Chinese. Actual steps: enable locale middleware and language settings, add URL prefixes, mark every visible string with gettext and gettext_lazy, then generate and compile .po/.mo files with makemessages and compilemessages for the zh-hans locale. Translations are provided by a native speaker and the site displays translated titles buttons and filters.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Introduction
- 2:35Demo
- 4:19Workflow
- 8:17Application Settings
- 12:27Language Prefixes
- 18:28Message Files
- 22:43Big Picture
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