Question

I want to do localization in Django based on the country code / locale set in users UserProfile instead of using whatever the browser/session/webserver thinks is the locale.

Is there a way to do this in django templates?

e.g how to change the behaviour of

{% load l10n %}
{{ value|time|localize }}

so that it formats the date based on what’s stored in the profile, not based on some request context?

Answer 1

Django provides LocaleMiddleware that does most of what you are after:

Enables language selection based on data from the request. It
customizes content for each user. See the internationalization
documentation.

The method it uses to guess the language is the same that is used by the translation machinery; that is it looks for a django_language variable in the session, if that exists and is a valid language, it will set that language for the request. See how django discovers language preference.

Once you enable LocaleMiddleware and set django_language from the user’s profile at your login view everything should work.