本文在django 1.7验证过
1 在项目settings.py中添加两行(+表示添加行):
+ LOCALE_PATHS = (BASE_DIR+ "/locale",)
MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES = (
'django.middleware.common.CommonMiddleware',
'django.contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware',
+ 'django.middleware.locale.LocaleMiddleware',
'django.middleware.csrf.CsrfViewMiddleware',
)
2 在views.py中标记要翻译的字符串,格式为{% trans ‘字符串’%} 如
{% load i18n %}
{% trans 'User' %}
3 建立locale目录结构
$ mkdir locale/en -p
$ mkdir locale/zh_CN -p
$ python manage.py makemessages -a
processing locale zh_CN
processing locale en
此时会新建./locale/{lang}/LC_MESSAGES/django.po文件,lang表示语言,中文为zh_CN。
其中django.po文件包含了django目录中所有需要翻译的字符串。如
#, fuzzy
msgid ""
msgstr ""
"Project-Id-Version: PACKAGE VERSION\n"
"Report-Msgid-Bugs-To: \n"
"POT-Creation-Date: 2016-04-07 10:33+0800\n"
"PO-Revision-Date: YEAR-MO-DA HO:MI+ZONE\n"
"Last-Translator: FULL NAME
"Language-Team: LANGUAGE
"Language: \n"
"MIME-Version: 1.0\n"
"Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8\n"
"Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\n"
#: templates/base.html:138
msgid "User"
msgstr ""
4 翻译相关语言下的django.po。对于每个msgid的字符串,修改对应的翻译语句,如上例为
#: templates/base.html:138
msgid "User"
msgstr ""
5 编译:
$ python manage.py compilemessages
processing file django.po in /usr/src/appstoreserver/appstore/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES
processing file django.po in /usr/src/appstoreserver/appstore/locale/en/LC_MESSAGES
6 done