Recipes¶

Adding a new language locally¶

If you’re translating a new language you’ll need to translate the existing tg-react messages:

Make a new folder where you want to store the internationalization resources. Add this path to your LOCALE_PATHS setting.
Now create a subfolder for the language you want to translate. The folder should be named using locale name notation. For example: de, pt_BR, es_AR.
Now copy the base translations file from the tg-react source code into your translations folder.
Edit the django.po file you’ve just copied, translating all the messages.
Run manage.py compilemessages -l pt_BR to make the translations available for Django to use. You should see a message like processing file django.po in <…>/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES.
Restart your development server to see the changes take effect.

Follow the process described in Adding a new language locally but instead of creating a new directory use the name of an existing one.