Internationalization and Localization Support

Overview

Django provides support for Internationalization and Localization:

• Internationalization (i18n) involves extracting strings out of your source code and presenting them as properties that are further referenced in the source code.

• Localization enables translating these properties into the target languages.

Supported features

PyCharm provides helpful features that simplify working on software internationalization and localization issues. These features are:

• Possibility to run i18n-related tasks of the manage.py utility.

• Syntax highlighting in *.po files.

• Intention action to surround blocks of text in Django templates.

• Navigation between blocks of text and locales.

Prerequisites

Internationalization and Localization support is available for the Django applications.

1. Download the gettext archive from http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/gettext/ utilities are downloaded and installed on your machine.

2. Unpack the downloaded archive.

3. Add the paths to the bin directories of gettext-runtime and gettext-tools to the $PATH variable.

4. Create the locale directory in the project root.

5. Set Django as the project template language.