Overview
I18N support with PyCharm falls into the following major aspects:
- Internationalization, which involves extracting strings out of your source code and presenting them as properties that are further referenced in the source code.
- Localization, which means translating these properties into the target languages.
Note
I18N support is available for the Django applications only.
I18N-Related Features
PyCharm provides helpful features that simplify working on software internationalization and localization issues. These features are:
- Possibility to run i18n-related tasks of the manage.py utility.
- Syntax highlighting in *.po files.
- Intention action to surround blocks of text in Django templates.
- Navigation between blocks of text and locales.
Prerequisites
I18n support is available for the Django applications.
Note
- gettext utilities are downloaded and installed on your machine.
- locale directory is created in the project root.
- Django is the project template language.
