Teru's blog

Japanese translation of Pinax 3

Getting better.

Modified the template ~/pinax/projects/complete_project/templates/projects/project.html to add two blocktrans sections. After running

$  python /var/lib/python-support/python2.5/django/bin/django-admin.py makemessages -l ja

new msgid/msgstr pairs appeared in django.po. I translated them and run

$  python /var/lib/python-support/python2.5/django/bin/django-admin.py compilemessages

and ran the server by

$ python manage.py runserver 192.168.1.81:8000 &

But, the new translation parts were not reflected on the page disappointing. （Later it worked after some tweaking. Dec.4, 2008)

Found django.po files under ~/pinax/apps/external_apps. I translated them, and created django.mo. How about other apps? Opened SciTE editor and searched with a keyword _(. Well, a lot ! So, realize I need to learn more about how the whole translation works here in this Pinax project. Posted on pinax-users mailing list at http://groups.google.com/group/pinax-users. No reply yet. (Have received responses. Good help. Dec.4, 2008)