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Asked: 2026-05-28T01:50:56+00:00

I have a quick question regarding translation in django. I am planing to redesign

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I have a quick question regarding translation in django.

I am planing to redesign an existing company website from the ground up, this site is served in Danish (da-dk) with the option to switch to English. And i want a similar setup for my django site, ive read through the internationalization documentation a few times. But i am still left with one question:

How do i tell django that my translation strings are written in Danish?

My guess would be to use LANGUAGE_CODE=’da-dk’, but the django documentation is fuzzy at best as to how one should do this.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Django uses the GNU gettext library.

    Django has a django/conf/locale/en, even if English is the base transation language.

    GNU gettext does not care which the base language is; English is a good choice because it is easier to find someone that translates from English to Portuguese than from Danish to Portuguese. Your en/LC_MESSAGES/*.po file will have:

    msgid "nogle danske sætning"
msgstr "some Danish phrase"

    and your da_dk/LC_MESSAGES/*.po file will have:

    msgid "nogle danske sætning"
msgstr ""
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