Django Internationalization

Question

I have a similar issue as found here Why doesn't Django produce locale files from template files in another directory?

However I don't understand the solution. My structure:

Project
   App1
      locale
      templates
   App2
      locale
      templates
   templates
      somefilethatneedstranslation.html

Now when I run this command from App1:

python ../manage.py App1 -l nl

It nicely creates a po file for the App1 templates in the App1 locale folder

However I want my global templates to be translated aswell.. note: I do NOT want a locale folder in my project root, so I tried adding a symlink to the templates folder from App1 but it does not append the translation results to the App1/locale/po file

from the App1 folder

ln -s ../templates/locale/* translations
python ../manage.py App1 -l nl --symlinks

What am I missing?

note:

from the templates folder

python ../manage.py templates -l nl

could work, but it won't because obviously templates is not an installed app, it seems I am missing the obvious...

Answer 1

The full deprecation message (which is also explained in the translation docs) is:

Translations in the project directory aren't supported anymore. LOCALE_PATHS setting instead.

This message is perhaps a bit unclear. While automatic discovery of translations in the project directory is deprecated, the use of LOCALE_PATHS to reference a project-level locale folder is totally acceptable.

If you have project-level templates, it doesn't make sense to have these templates translated in an app-specific locale location: keep a project-level locale directory, reference it in LOCALE_PATHS.