Question

I can switch to ru and en, but when i try to switch to hy, nothing happens.

settings.py

...
LANGUAGE_CODE = 'en'

LANGUAGES = [
    ('en',_('English')),
    ('ru', _(u'Russian')),
    ('hy', _(u'Armenian')),
]

sidebar.html

...
<div id="sidebar-item-news">
        <form action="/i18n/setlang/" method="post" id="language-select">
            <input name="next" type="hidden" value="/" />
            {% csrf_token %}
            <select name="language">
                {% for lang in LANGUAGES %}
                    <option value="{{ lang.0 }}">{{ lang.1 }}</option>
                {% endfor %}
            </select>
            <input type="submit" value="Go" />
        </form>
</div>

urls.py

# Internationalization
    (r'^i18n/', include('django.conf.urls.i18n')),

After some debugging i figured out that request.session[‘django_language’] changes only to ru and en:

Current language is ru
[19/May/2012 22:51:55] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 13357
[19/May/2012 22:51:56] "POST /i18n/setlang/ HTTP/1.1" 302 0
Current language is ru
[19/May/2012 22:51:56] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 13357

I have all compiled translation files in /locale/hy and /locale/ru

If i put in home view translation.activate('hy') it works perfectly, but if i try to do this with my api

def api(request, type):
    if request.method == 'POST':
        if type == 'daytime':
            request.session['daytime'] = request.POST['daytime']
            return HttpResponse(request.session['daytime'])

        if type == 'language':
            request.session['custom_language'] = True
            request.session['django_language'] = request.POST['language']
            translation.activate(request.session['django_language'] )
            return HttpResponse(request.session['django_language'])
        raise Http404
    else:
        raise Http404

It fails as the i18n/setlang form.

How to fix this?

UPD
It seems that Django does not support armenian. (there is no ‘hy’ in /django/conf/locale/)
How should i work with this language?

Answer 1

See Locale restriction section in i18n docs. Looks like you need to modify Django a little.