G'day everyone, What I want to do: To keep my American users happy, I want to localise my site for en-us locale users. That way, they'll see all the dropped 'u's and past participles and other things that don't exist in 'U.S. English' (and that U.S. date format and all the other spelling variations), but my site will still be correct for users in en-au, en- nz, en-gb, en-za, en-ca, etc.
Unfortunately, it's not working. Even when I have my browser set to U.S. English, the version of my site I see is in international English. Details: I'm using Python 2.5.2, and 'Django version 1.0-final-SVN- unknown'. What I've tried: 1. I've made sure that i18n/l10n is working in general by translating a few things to Dutch (nl) and setting my browser to that locale. It works. (This article helped a lot: http://devdoodles.wordpress.com/2009/02/14/multi-language-support-in-a-django-project/) 2. According to http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/i18n/, 'Django does not support localizing your application into a locale for which Django itself has not been translated. [...] If you want to support a locale for your application that is not already part of Django, you'll need to make at least a minimal translation of the Django core.' I've done this by copying the 'en' directory to 'en_US' in /var/lib/python-support/python2.5/django/conf/locale and /usr/share/ python-support/python-django/django/conf/locale.* I also set LANGUAGES to include only 'en' and 'en-us' (and 'nl') in settings.py. Since I did these two things, putting {{ request.LANGUAGE_CODE }} in a template yields 'en-us' when I set my browser to U.S. English, and just 'en' when I use other English locales. (Before doing these things, it returned 'en' regardless of which English locale I had my browser set to.) 3. I used django-admin makemessages -l en and django-admin makemessages -l en-us to create language files, created the American translations, and ran django-admin compilemessages. (I also tried using en_US instead of en-us, since that's the standard used in the two system directories I noted above. No difference.) What's not working: The U.S. English text isn't showing up when I set my browser to U.S. English, even though {{ request.LANGUAGE_CODE }} does display 'en-us'. * I have root on my own development server, so I was able to copy these locale directories. My web host probably won't let me do this, however, so I need to find another way that works. Any advice? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
