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Django 3 By Example

You're reading from   Django 3 By Example Build powerful and reliable Python web applications from scratch

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838981952
Length 568 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Antonio Melé Antonio Melé
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Building a Blog Application 2. Enhancing Your Blog with Advanced Features FREE CHAPTER 3. Extending Your Blog Application 4. Building a Social Website 5. Sharing Content on Your Website 6. Tracking User Actions 7. Building an Online Shop 8. Managing Payments and Orders 9. Extending Your Shop 10. Building an E-Learning Platform 11. Rendering and Caching Content 12. Building an API 13. Building a Chat Server 14. Going Live 15. Other Books You May Enjoy
16. Index

Adding internationalization and localization

Django offers full internationalization and localization support. It allows you to translate your application into multiple languages and it handles locale-specific formatting for dates, times, numbers, and timezones. Let's clarify the difference between internationalization and localization. Internationalization (frequently abbreviated to i18n) is the process of adapting software for the potential use of different languages and locales, so that it isn't hardwired to a specific language or locale. Localization (abbreviated to l10n) is the process of actually translating the software and adapting it to a particular locale. Django itself is translated into more than 50 languages using its internationalization framework.

Internationalization with Django

The internationalization framework allows you to easily mark strings for translation, both in Python code and in your templates. It relies on the GNU gettext...

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