Question

i know the {% trans %} is for translation,

and how can i translate {% trans “This is the title.” %} to chinese.

thanks

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D:\zjm_code\register2>python D:\Python25\Lib\site-packages\django\bin\django-adm
in.py compilemessages
processing file django.po in D:\zjm_code\register2\locale\cn\LC_MESSAGES
msgfmt: iconv failure

Answer 1

You don’t follow the documentation?

3 steps:

1. Add {% load i18n %} in the template (as Michał Ludwiński says). Put the {% trans %} in your templates, or _ in python code, etc.

2. Build a translation dictionary:

   • Run django-admin.py makemessages -l cn (cn = China language code) in your Django project root.

   • Edit locale/cn/LC_MESSAGES/django.po. Just under msgid "Hello!" change msgstr "" to to msgstr "nihao". Don’t change msgid. You can use unicode, but I’d use pinyin until you are sure everything else works.

   • Run django-admin.py compilemessages

3. Setup language translation. You might need to enable some middle-ware.