Can't get Django localization to work

Question

I've searched several threads and bug reports, but couldn't find a solution.

I changed the locale of my Django project to pt-br but it made no difference. I excepted all input fields and outputs to localize dates and numbers, specially DECIMAL_SEPARATOR and THOUSAND_SEPARATOR, including in the admin API. But the dates there continue to appear as yyyy-mm-dd and decimal separator "," generates an error upon input.

I did everything I found: changed the settings, added localization middleware classes, enabled USE_I18N and USE_L10N, tried to force setlocale manually, etc. Here is a glimpse of my settings.py:

LANGUAGE_CODE = 'pt-br'
USE_I18N = True
USE_L10N = True

MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES = (
    'django.middleware.common.CommonMiddleware',
    'django.middleware.locale.LocaleMiddleware',
    'django.contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware',
    'django.contrib.auth.middleware.AuthenticationMiddleware',
    'django.middleware.transaction.TransactionMiddleware',
)

DATE_FORMAT = 'd/m/Y'
SHORT_DATE_FORMAT = 'd/m/Y'
DATE_INPUT_FORMATS = ('%d/%m/%Y', '%d/%m/%y', '%Y-%m-%d')
DECIMAL_SEPARATOR = ','
THOUSAND_SEPARATOR = '.'

Is it weird that my Python console running on a Brazilian Portuguese Windows outputs this?

>>> locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, ('pt_BR', 'cp1252'))
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "C:\Python25\lib\locale.py", line 478, in setlocale
    return _setlocale(category, locale)
locale.Error: unsupported locale setting

Any ideas of what I forgot to try?

Answer 1

Windows uses different locale IDs. The following should work (obtained from the table on Microsoft's site):

In [15]: locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, 'Portuguese_Brazil')
Out[15]: 'Portuguese_Brazil.1252'