Opened 7 years ago
Closed 6 years ago
#28808 closed New feature (duplicate)
Allow customizing the fallback language
Reported by: | Denis Anuschewski | Owned by: | Claude Paroz |
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Component: | Internationalization | Version: | 1.11 |
Severity: | Normal | Keywords: | translation, internationalization, request |
Cc: | Triage Stage: | Unreviewed | |
Has patch: | yes | Needs documentation: | yes |
Needs tests: | yes | Patch needs improvement: | no |
Easy pickings: | no | UI/UX: | no |
Description
This is a follow-up ticket for #28636, where I proposed changes that differ from the much better solution which came up in the analysis from Claude Paroz. So in order to clean up things the new approach with the underlying problem is now mentioned here:
Currently there is no way to explicitly specify a fallback language for both unsupported languages ( = not in settings.LANGUAGES
) and missing literal translations in the translation files. This job is done by settings.LANGUAGE_CODE
which controls a lot of other language-related features.
It would be useful to be able to control this behavior without touching settings.LANGUAGE_CODE
which defines your project's installation-wide language preference. One scenario in which you would benefit from that is having a non-English project where you want to deliver English as fallback for languages that differ from your base language.
Change History (5)
comment:1 by , 7 years ago
Needs documentation: | set |
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Needs tests: | set |
comment:2 by , 7 years ago
Triage Stage: | Unreviewed → Accepted |
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comment:3 by , 7 years ago
comment:4 by , 6 years ago
Has patch: | set |
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Triage Stage: | Accepted → Unreviewed |
comment:5 by , 6 years ago
Resolution: | → duplicate |
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Status: | assigned → closed |
I'm going to close this as a duplicate of #28636. Better to keep all the discussion in the one place there.
My pull request https://github.com/django/django/pull/9248 implements this feature by introducing a new setting
LANGUAGE_FALLBACK
. When untouched it doesn't change the default translation routine, but by setting your desired language here you can control the translation fallback.