Internationalization support!

Posted by Adrian Holovaty on November 4, 2005

It's been weeks in the making, and it's finally here: Outstanding internationalization support in Django.

Thanks to Hugo and a number of other community members, Django now has:

• Full support for specifying translation strings -- both in Python code and in Django templates.
• Full support for detecting users' language preferences and using the appropriate translation.
• Support for 12 languages in validation messages, core Django models and the automatically created Django admin site.

This update is fully backwards-compatible.

We're grateful that translators have submitted translations for the following languages:

• cs (Czech)
• de (German)
• en (English)
• es (Spanish)
• fr (French)
• gl (Galician)
• it (Italian)
• no (Norwegian)
• pt-br (Brazilian)
• ru (Russian)
• sr (Serbian)
• zh-cn (Simplified Chinese)

To get started, just update your Django code and read the full internationalization docs.

If you want a quick flash of coolness, turn on the new LocaleMiddleware, change your browser's language settings to any of the other supported languages, and launch your Django admin site. Warning: Its coolness will blow your mind.

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