Internationalization and Localization Support

In this section:

• Internationalization and Localization Support
  • Overview
  • i18n-related features
  • Prerequisites
• Creating Message Files
• Extracting Blocks of Text from Django Templates
• Compiling Message Files
• Navigating Between Text and Message File

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.

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.

• gettext utilities are downloaded and installed on your machine.
• locale directory is created in the project root.
• Django is the project template language.