Default language via settings not respected during testing

Question

Using Django 1.3, Python 2.6

Having a particularly weird problem to track down related to internationalization, and RequestFactory vs. TestClient for testing views

Answer 1

There are 2 possibilities :

a) You have 'django.middleware.locale.LocaleMiddleware' in settings.MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES.

In this case, the client use settings.LANGUAGE_CODE.

b) You don't.

In that case, you should set the language like that somewhere in your tests.py module:

from django.utils.translation import activate
...
activate('fr-fr')

https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/15143