Hi,
According to
http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.2/howto/i18n/#using-translations-in-your-own-projects
and
http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.2/topics/i18n/deployment/#how-django-discovers-translations
At runtime, Django looks for translations by following this algorithm:
* First, it looks for a locale directory in the application directory
of the view that’s being called. If it finds a translation for the
selected language, the translation will be installed.
* Next, it looks for a locale directory in the project directory. If
it finds a translation, the translation will be installed.
* Finally, it checks the Django-provided base translation in django/
conf/locale.
However, this has not been my experience. I also do not see anything
in the django source code or tests that responds to the above.
In django/utils/translation/trans_real.py I see the following:
def translation(language):
[......]
for appname in settings.INSTALLED_APPS:
apppath = os.path.join(get_apppath(appname), 'locale')
if os.path.isdir(apppath):
res = _merge(apppath)
_merge (and deeper down "merge") is defined as a dictionary update in
the same file.
I see two problems here:
1] the documented behavior is not implemented
2] the implemented behavior has the opposite order-of-preference for
apps as the rest of Django. (Normally, the higher up in your
INSTALLED_APPS you put an app, the more likely it's templates, etc.
will be called. Here we're using a dict update, so the lowest app has
preference)
Am I missing something? I've done some grepping but couldn't find any
point where the "currently called view's app" is somehow related to
the used translation.
Should I file a bug? And if so: should we fix the documentation or the
code?
Klaas
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