how to enable custom string in django.po for Localization in django

Question

this is the demo.rar file.

1 . i use this code to create a zh-CN :

django-admin.py makemessages -l zh-CN

2 . i add some string to django.po :

msgid "zjm1126"
msgstr "哈哈哈!!!"

3 . and then compile it :

django-admin.py compilemessages

but i don't find it become chinese words

so why ?

thanks

Answer 1

You need to also take two more steps:

1. Mark the string "zjm1126" for translation in your template, for example with {% trans "zjm1126" %}.

2. Activate Chinese as the current language. This is often done for you by Django, but you can do it explicitly if you need to.

Answer 2

use django-admin.py makemessages -l zh_CN

not user django-admin.py makemessages -l zh-CN

zh_CN is different from zh-CN