翻译 'Django-Oscar'

Question

I want to learn how to build an opensource e-commerce site. For this purpose I'm using 'Django' framework with 'Oscar' extension.

I read the whole tutorial here: https://django-oscar.readthedocs.io/en/releases-1.5/index.html , where there is a Translation tutorial. I followed it (must say that it has missing steps). This part says that, in order to translate a page you must create two folders and a symbolic link:

mkdir locale i18n
ln -s $PATH_TO_OSCAR i18n/oscar

Then, for each language you want to translate:

./manage.py makemessages --symlinks --locale=<language code>

That's correct but, besides that, you must compile .po files in order to get the final traduction in locale folder ( .mo files). After that you must include the traductions into settings.py of project (or app). This is done with the following code:

• In terminal (from root directory of project): $ django-admin.py compilemessages

• In settings.py add:

  LANGUAGES = [ ('de', _('German')), ('en', _('English')), ('es', _('Spanish')), ]

( Note: This is my case, where I want to translate the store into German, Spanish and English)

After doing that, I run my server and only these three languages appear in the select language box, but when I push the button in order to translate the page, It returns the default language (English) every time, getting this in each translation petition:

"POST /i18n/setlang/ HTTP/1.1" 302 0
"GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 8379

Is there any step I'm skipping or anything I'm doing wrong?

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

I've got a partial (almost complete) solution. Due to languages I want to use are very common, I used Django translation middleware directly, without using the one Oscar provides. So, my solution is to edit settings.py by including in MIDDLEWARE (or in MIDDLEWARE_CLASES depending of Django version) the Django internacionalization middleware: django.middleware.locale.LocaleMiddleware .

After that, without importing ugettext ( from django.utils.translation import ugettext as _ ), feel free to add languages as follows:

LANGUAGES = [
    ('es', 'Spanish'),
    ('de', 'German'),
    ('en', 'English'),
    ('pt-br', 'Brazilian'),
    #... and so on
]

This solution doesn't need creating symbolic links or additional folders.