Django Translation not working even with LOCALE_PATHS

Question

So I'm using django 1.8 to create a new web site that has to be translated into portuguese.

So to use django's own tools I added to my middlewares:

'django.middleware.locale.LocaleMiddleware',

I also added to my context_processors:

'django.template.context_processors.i18n',

and the i configure my language settings:

USE_I18N = True
gettext = lambda s: s
LANGUAGE_CODE = 'en'
LOCALE_PATHS = (
    os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'locale'),
)
print LOCALE_PATHS
LANGUAGES = (
    ('pt-br', gettext('Portuguese')),
    ('en', gettext('English')),
)

TIME_ZONE = 'America/Sao_Paulo'
USE_L10N = True
USE_TZ = True

I also have imported on the top of my document:

from django.utils.translation import ugettext as _

Then i added the tags:

{% trans "text" %}

on my templates with the appropriate texts. After that i ran:

python manage.py makemessages -l pt-br

then i translated everything on my .po file, and finally i compiled it with:

python manage.py compilemessages

But when I ran my site it was still in english. My Browser is on pt-br, and i also have a working example but this specific site is not being translated. I did add the i18n urls.

Can anybody help me out? What Am I missing?

Answer 1

So Apparently Django has to see the locale folder as pt_br not pt-br, but the settings have to be with pt-br. That's that did the trick for me.