On Fri, 2009-02-27 at 13:15 -0800, Scott wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm working on an App Engine (using the Django helper) application
> that is to be presented in a number of different languages, and
> routing is managed primarily by cookie. The app is serving the correct
> pages in most cases, but a few languages default back to English,
> despite the cookie being set (and corresponding to the language code
> in the locale folder).
>
> Here's a snippet from the settings.py file:
>
> LANGUAGES = (
> ('en', 'English'),
> ('en_gb', 'English_GB'),
> ('cn', 'Simplified_Chinese'),
> ('b5', 'Traditional_Chinese'),
> ('cn_hk', 'Chinese_HK'),
> ('de', 'German'),
> ('es', 'Spanish'),
> ('fr', 'French'),
> ('it', 'Italian'),
> ('ja', 'Japanese'),
> ('ko', 'Korean'),
> ('nl', 'Dutch'),
> ('pl', 'Polish'),
> ('pt_br', 'Portuguese'),
> ('ru', 'Russian'),
> ('th', 'Thai'),
> ('tr', 'Turkish'),
> )
>
> The cookies being set match that language set exactly, as do the
> locale folders containing the .mo and .po files.
> The languages that aren't working are:
>
> - Simplified Chinese
> - Traditional Chinese
> - Hong Kong Chinese
> - Thai
> - Korean
>
> The Chinese codes differ from the ISO standard, but the Korean and
> Thai ones do not.
>
> Any idea why Django would exhibit this sort of selective routing?
My guess is that those are all the languages not supported by Django
itself. You can only use a locale in your application if it's also part
of the set included in Django (django/conf/locale/*). Partly this is
because "that's just the way it is", but partly because there are a lot
of strings returned that are generated by Django, so you'll need those
translated as well for full coverage. If you're going to translate them
for your application, you might as well contribute them back to Django
so that we can distribute it, so there's not a huge motivation to remove
that constraint at the moment.
Regards,
Malcolm
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