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5347	django does not look in the project-dir for a locale directory	jumo@…	nobody	"hi,

maybe this is a copy but i couldn't find the ""original"".

i have a model like this:

{{{
from django.db import models
from django.utils.translation import ugettext_lazy as _

# Create your models here.
class Thing(models.Model):
        name = models.CharField(_('in model'),max_length=150)

        class Admin:
                pass

}}}

and in the root folder of my project (not my application) there is a conf/locale directory

after calling bin/make-messages.py in the root folder of my project there is a django.po like this:

{{{
julian@laptop:~/test/bug$ cat conf/locale/en-us/LC_MESSAGES/django.po 
# SOME DESCRIPTIVE TITLE.
# Copyright (C) YEAR THE PACKAGE'S COPYRIGHT HOLDER
# This file is distributed under the same license as the PACKAGE package.
# FIRST AUTHOR <EMAIL@ADDRESS>, YEAR.
#
#, fuzzy
msgid """"
msgstr """"
""Project-Id-Version: PACKAGE VERSION\n""
""Report-Msgid-Bugs-To: \n""
""POT-Creation-Date: 2007-09-06 09:42+0200\n""
""PO-Revision-Date: YEAR-MO-DA HO:MI+ZONE\n""
""Last-Translator: FULL NAME <EMAIL@ADDRESS>\n""
""Language-Team: LANGUAGE <LL@li.org>\n""
""MIME-Version: 1.0\n""
""Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8\n""
""Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\n""

#: thing/models.py:6
msgid ""in model""
msgstr ""in django.po""
}}}

after installing that app and calling bin/compile-messages.py the label in the admin-inteface for the name-field is ""in model"" and not, as i should be, ""in django.po"". there is no locale/... directory in my application directoy; the documentation reads:

''First, it looks for a locale directory in the application directory of the view that’s being called. If it finds a translation for the selected language, the translation will be installed.''

there isn't a locale directory in the application directory, so this step should take affect,  but it doesn't:

''Next, it looks for a locale directory in the project directory. If it finds a translation, the translation will be installed.''

where (in the second quote) ''locale directory'' should be ''conf/locale'' directory, additionally."		closed	Tools	dev		invalid	i18n, internationalization, make-messages.py, compile-messages.py		Unreviewed	0	0	0	0	0	0