The easiest way to have a multilingual django site?

Question

Hi

I have and old django site (0.97-pre-SVN-7457) and I'm about to make some changes and get the site running on the current development code of django.

I have alot of content that needs to be intact. When I started the site, I made an ugly "hack" to get a dual lingual site, so the result is not pretty:

Here is my model:

class Entry(models.Model):
title_NO = models.CharField(max_length=500)
teaser_NO = models.TextField(blank=True, null=True,)
body_NO = models.TextField(blank=True, null=True,)
title_EN = models.CharField(max_length=500, blank=True, null=True)
teaser_EN = models.TextField(blank=True, null=True,)
body_EN = models.TextField(blank=True, null=True,)
...

In my templates I have written:

<div id="language_NO">
<h1>{{object.title_NO}}</h1>
.....
</div>
<div id="language_EN">
<h1>{{object.title_EN}}</h1>
 .....
</div>

And using a simple javascript to determine wich div to show (Printing the content twice in the template is very ugly, I know!)

So, now that I want to make some changes, what is the best way to go?

I have tried to read the documentation on the subject, but I cant find anything explaining what to do with the urls and templates.

The only current thing I have found is how to change the language correct

Your help is much appreciated!

Answer 1

There are various third-party projects that manage this sort of thing. Here's one review.

Answer 2

Google code has a library that provides support for multilingual content in Django models.

Answer 3

The answer is was looking for was this:

in my template:

{% load i18n %}{% get_current_language as LANGUAGE_CODE %}

{% ifequal LANGUAGE_CODE "en" %}                    
<h2>{{object.title_EN }}</h2>
{% else %}
<h2>{{object.title_NO }}</h2>
{% endifequal %}