Portuguese (pt) request.LANGUAGE_CODE problem

[Patrick J. Anderson]

Hi, everybody!

I wanted to post about a little problem I have while developing
multilingual site I'm working on.

I plan to include content in various languages, focusing on 3 at the
moment: English, Spanish and Portuguese.

I have followed the docs on i18n and this are working great, except for
one little detail. I'm not able to switch current language to
Portuguese(pt) language, while I can change to Brazilian
Portuguese(pt_br). I see that Portuguese(pt) locale does not exist in
the framework, but does that prevent me from using it on my site?

Below are the appropriate settings I use in settings.py:

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LANGUAGE_CODE = 'en'

LANGUAGES = (
#('de', 'Deutsch'),
('en', 'English'),
('es', 'Español'),
#('fr', 'Français'),
#('hu', 'Magyar'),
#('it', 'Italiano'),
#('ja', '日本語'),
#('pl', 'Polski'),
('pt', 'Português'),
#('ro', 'Română'),
#('ru', 'Руский'),
#('zh', '中文'),
)

USE_I18N = True

MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES = (
'django.middleware.common.CommonMiddleware',
'django.contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware',
'django.middleware.locale.LocaleMiddleware',
'django.contrib.auth.middleware.AuthenticationMiddleware',
'django.middleware.doc.XViewMiddleware',
)

TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS = (
'django.core.context_processors.auth',
'django.core.context_processors.debug',
'django.core.context_processors.i18n',
'django.core.context_processors.request',
)

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Has anyone working on Portuguese sites encountered the same problem?
Should I use Brazilian Portuguese instead?

I'd appreciate some help with figuring out how to go about adding that
locale to my site in simplest and sensible way.

[James Bennett]

On 1/16/07, Patrick J. Anderson <pat.j.a...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'd appreciate some help with figuring out how to go about adding that
> locale to my site in simplest and sensible way.

The simplest way is to produce a translation for the 'pt' locale ;)

See this for information:

http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/i18n/#how-to-create-language-files

You might also want to check on the django-i18n mailing list to see if
anyone else is working on a 'pt' translation, and coordinate efforts.
Once the translation is ready, you can begin using it, and if you like
you can open a ticket in the Django Trac for it to have it added to
the framework.

--
"May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house."
-- George Carlin

[Patrick J. Anderson]

James Bennett wrote:
>
> On 1/16/07, Patrick J. Anderson <pat.j.a...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I'd appreciate some help with figuring out how to go about adding that
>> locale to my site in simplest and sensible way.
>
> The simplest way is to produce a translation for the 'pt' locale ;)
>
> See this for information:
>
> http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/i18n/#how-to-create-language-files
>
>
> You might also want to check on the django-i18n mailing list to see if
> anyone else is working on a 'pt' translation, and coordinate efforts.
> Once the translation is ready, you can begin using it, and if you like
> you can open a ticket in the Django Trac for it to have it added to
> the framework.
>

Thanks, James! I would do it if I spoke Portuguese :) Unfortunately, I'm
just a developer with a requirement for Portuguese translations.

Maybe I should copy 'pt_br' locale to 'pt' and when I add this language
to my project, I'll ask translators to go through the Brazilian
Portuguese .po file and make it 'Portuguese'.

[Nuno Mariz]

Hi,
I'm portuguese and I'm going to translate django to pt-pt in this
month. Stay tune.

Nuno Mariz

[Patrick J. Anderson]

That'd be great! Looking forward to it being included in the framework!

[Nuno Mariz]

You can download now the unofficial Portuguese(pt_PT) translation of
Django in http://mariz.org/downloads/