Get current language name filter in templates

[Secator <mariusz.jamro@…>]

Currently there's no way to retrieve current language name easily in templates. You can only use {% get_current_language ... %} filter to get the language code (eg. 'en-us' or 'de-de').
There should be a template filter in django.templatetags.i18n to get the "English" or "German" strings (verbose name of the language).

Example:

#settings.py:
LANGUAGES = (
  ('de', 'German'),
  ('en', 'English'),
)

#templates:
{% get_current_language as LANGUAGE_CODE %} # Existing filter. Returns en-us if language is english.
{% get_current_language_name as LANGUAGE_NAME %} # Proposed filter. Should return 'English' if LANGUAGE_CODE is 'en'. Basically should return the second element of settings.LANGUAGES touples.

[Ramiro Morales]

This is part of what has been proposed and discussed on #4030.

That ticket has been accepted by two core developers and has a patch that contains documentation and test (although it could be outdated, perhaps we could revive it and propose for 1.3). For that reason I'm closing this ticket as duplicate.

[Jacob]

Milestone 1.3 deleted