django i18n does not use my .mo files

Question

I'm trying to internationalize my django app but I'm stuck.

I tried to translate some strings for testing purpose and it succeed but now even if I edit the .po files and compile to create .mo files it still translate just like the first test with the first test values on the first test strings. I don't know why, i've been searching for days.

here is my settings.py middleware part :

MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES = (
    'django.contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware',
    'django.middleware.common.CommonMiddleware',
    'django.middleware.csrf.CsrfViewMiddleware',
    'django.contrib.auth.middleware.AuthenticationMiddleware',
    'django.contrib.auth.middleware.SessionAuthenticationMiddleware',
    'django.contrib.messages.middleware.MessageMiddleware',
    'django.middleware.clickjacking.XFrameOptionsMiddleware',
    'django.middleware.security.SecurityMiddleware',
    'django.middleware.locale.LocaleMiddleware',
)

the context processors part :

TEMPLATES = [
    {
        'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
        'DIRS': [os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'templates')],
        'APP_DIRS': True,
        'OPTIONS': {
            'context_processors': [
                'django.template.context_processors.debug',
                'django.template.context_processors.request',
                'django.contrib.auth.context_processors.auth',
                'django.contrib.messages.context_processors.messages',
                'django.core.context_processors.i18n',
            ],
        },
    },
]

and the internationalization part :

LANGUAGE_CODE = 'en-gb'

TIME_ZONE = 'UTC'

USE_I18N = True

USE_L10N = True

USE_TZ = True

LOCAL_PATHS = (
    os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'locale/'), #BASE_DIR = os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)))
)

LANGUAGES = (
    ('fr', _('French')),
    ('en', _('English')),
)

There is a 'locale' directory at the root of my project, (i've already tried to put the absolute path in my LOCAL_PATHS).

.po files are generated by "python manage.py makemessages -l en -l fr -e djhtml -e py" at 'my/project/locale/lang[en or fr]/LC_MESSAGES/django.po' and .mo files are generated by "python manage.py compilemessages" at 'my/project/locale/lang[en or fr]/LC_MESSAGES/django.mo'.

I tried to clean the cache, restart the server (the runserver thing), but it still doesn't take into account any modifications on .po files.

Thank you for helping me.

Answer 1

It's LOCALE_PATHS, not LOCAL (link).