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

I was having this problem with my project right now. I had the variable LANGUAGES on settings.py set this way:

LANGUAGES = (
('en', _('English')),
('pt-br', _('Brazilian Portuguese')),
)

And a folder structure with a locale folder, and a subfolder pt-br inside. Turns out that my translations weren't loading. The LANGUAGES variable follows the pt-br pattern, and the folders must be on pt_BR pattern. At least that's the only way it's working here!