Django: How to force translation into a given language inside a template?

Question

In a Django template, I need to transanlate some strings to a specific language (different from current one).

I would need something like this:

{% tans_to "de" "my string to translate" %}
or
{% blocktrans_to "de" %}my bloc to translate {% endblocktrans_to %}

to force translation to German.

I know I can call the following code in a view:

gettext.translation('django', 'locale', ['de'], fallback=True).ugettext("my string to translate")

Do I need to create a specific template tag ? Or does it already exist a dedicated tag in Django ?

Answer 1

From Django version 1.6, there is a language template tag so you can simply pass the desired language code:

{% language "de" %}my block to translate{% endlanguage %}