Django internationalization minimal example

Question

I\'m having difficulty in internationalizing my app, so I present here a minimal example where my implementation fails.

Consider the following steps for producing a

Answer 1

Django collects translations in these 3 ways explained here: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/i18n/translation/#how-django-discovers-translations

The directories listed in LOCALE_PATHS have the highest precedence, with the ones appearing first having higher precedence than the ones appearing later.

Then, it looks for and uses if it exists a locale directory in each of the installed apps listed in INSTALLED_APPS. The ones appearing first have higher precedence than the ones appearing later.

Finally, the Django-provided base translation in django/conf/locale is used as a fallback.

Since your translation file is in none of these places you need to set it manually using LOCALE_PATHS as explained here: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/settings/#std:setting-LOCALE_PATHS