i18n doesn't work at production environment on heroku

Question

I have seen more than one hundred posts about i18n issues and no solution seems to solve my problem.

I have an app running with Django 1.3.1 and it works Fine at my

Answer 1

First of all, your language settings are wrong.

It should be like:

LANGUAGES = (
    ('zh', 'China'),
    ('en', 'English'),
    ('ja', 'Japanese'),
)

Next, check if the domain in your cookie settings are correct.

I had the same problem and thought Heroku's virtual environment would never support i18n, but finally found out that my 'django-language' value in the session cookie belongs to my local testing server '0.0.0.0:5000'.

After changing the settings, my translations done on the local server worked out of the box.