Django: Only a single element gets translated

Question

Porting a Django site from 1.2 to 1.5 on Python 2.6 i ran into problems with internationalization.

The wierd thing is that only one string gets translated in the en

Answer 1

Gah! I got bit by the same issue as this guy : https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/18492

Namely that a trailing comma was missing in the LOCALE_PATHS tuple. Too bad Django doesn't raise an error for that.