set language within a django view

Question

background: The view is called when a payment service pings back a payment outcome behind the scenes - afterwhich I need to send an email in the right langu

Answer 1

If just want to get the translated strings for a language for whatever reason, you can use override as a decorator like this:

from django.utils import translation
from django.utils.translation import ugettext as _

with translation.override(language):
    welcome = _('welcome')