Django i18n: Common causes for translations not appearing

Question

I am making a multilingual Django website. I created a messages file, populated and compiled it. I checked the site (the admin in this case,) in my wanted language (Hebrew)

Answer 1

Hi just attach some fixes I had to do in the past:

• Restart the webserver!

In the setting file - USE_I18N = True is needed

• django.middleware.locale.LocaleMiddleware among middleware modules (but this is not your case for sure as long as Django will not care about your local at all)

• django.core.context_processors.i18n among TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS

for sure I had other issues related to translations but I don't remember them all... hope this can help!

Answer 2

My answer here, all my translations were working except for 2 DateFields that I was using in a ModelForm. Turns out that I had a widget in my forms.py that was not working well with the translations.

I just removed it for now so I can enjoy Xmas =D

Answer 3

Maybe the translated strings are marked as fuzzy?