Django admin shows wrong translation - django

The problem is strange. Half of the admin inscriptions is translated to wrong language. I use ru and en languages in my project. The sites renders with the right language, but in the same browser admin appears as you can see in image:
I have locale folder in my app with en and ru locales, .po and .mo files are there...
settings.py:
LANGUAGES = (
('ru', gettext(u'Русский')),
('en', gettext(u'English')),
)
Trying different web-browsers... Browser sends following string in a header:
Accept-Language: ru-ru,ru;q=0.8,en-us;q=0.5,en;q=0.3
Problem is only in admin pages...
UPD 1:
With help of Diego the problem is localized, but not solved. With runserver everything is look good. But under fastcgi+nginx it doesn't work...

Make sure you have
fastcgi_pass_header "Accept-Language";
In your nginx conf.

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How to setup email translation with Django Allauth

I am trying to setup translations for emails with django-allauth.
I have rewritten my templates, translated my .po files and complied them.
The html translations work fine but for some reason just the emails don't get translated.
I have properly configured translations following the django tutorial
https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.10/topics/i18n/translation/#how-django-discovers-language-preference
The related question doesn't help:
How does email translation work with django allauth?
Package versions:
Django==1.10
django-allauth==0.27.0
I had the same problem with django-allauth==0.32.0 and Django==1.11.1. Translations that are shipped with allauth are simply outdated or incomplete. In my project, for example, an email with a link to reset the password was always in English (in default language LANGUAGE_CODE = 'en') although the user set the language to Czech.
In .po file for Czech translations: https://github.com/pennersr/django-allauth/blob/master/allauth/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/django.po#L408 is this e-mail translation marked as fuzzy – so translations are not used. The same applies to other languages I've checked (de, es...).
The reason is explained in this comment from the author of allauth:
The allauth templates are merely meant as a starting point, something
to get you going quickly. Hence, I do not treat issues in the
translations as blocking for release, which can result in translations
getting left behind. Feel free to submit pull requests to fill in the
gaps.
Source: https://github.com/pennersr/django-allauth/issues/1113#issuecomment-141189606
I think there are two ways to solve this issue:
Fix/update translations on https://www.transifex.com/django-allauth/django-allauth/, submit pull request on Github and wait for a new release.
My recommendation: copy all templates from allauth to your project, make your own *.po files and ignore all default translations/templates. Do not forget that e-mail templates are in *.txt so you must call makemessages this way: python manage.py makemessages ... --extension html,txt,py.

Why are some strings in Django .po translated while others not?

This is the first time I used Django localization.
I generated the .po files with makemessages and randomly select a
few strings to fill in the translations, just to check if
localization works.
Then I generate the .mo file with
compilemessages.
I go to the web page and only see a string
'Username' translated, most other strings don't get the translated
version displayed.
What is going on here?
EDIT:
I found out why 'Username' is translated, it used the default translation in Django, but why Django didn't use my mo file is beyond me. I followed all the instructions in i18n doc.
I set the LOCALE_PATHS variable in settings.py to the path for my localization files.
I tried different LANGUAGE_CODE settings 'zh-cn', 'zh_CN'(both the setting variable and the directory name).
I tried msgunfmt django.mo, the file is valid.
There are some lines close to the beginning of po file:
#, fuzzy
msgid ""
msgstr ""
I believe this is normal.
I finally got it working after hours of trial and error.
I change my LOCALE_PATHS from:
LOCALE_PATHS = ("/path/to/locale/");
to:
LOCALE_PATHS = ("", "/path/to/locale/");
And it works right away. Maybe it is a bug with Django 1.5 (which I am using), or maybe I configured something wrong.
Anyway, hope this helps someone, and save you hours of time.
=========EDIT===========
As pointed out by #J.C.Leitão, you have to add comma to make the variable a tuple.
It was a rookie mistake of mine. But I think Django could be more friendly to developers if a single string is recognized, too.

django translation not working by django-rosetta

I have installed the django-rosetta for translation, made .po and .mo files through django command
django-admin.py makemessages -l ar
and translate all words through django-rosetta,
now when i change my language to Arabic from English, it show some words in Arabic and some in English, although i have translated all these words in Arabic,
Have you restarted you web server?
This means your project's labels will be translated right away, unfortunately you'll still have to restart the webserver for the changes to take effect. (NEW: if your webserver supports it, you can force auto-reloading of the translated catalog whenever a change was saved. See the note regarding the ROSETTA_WSGI_AUTO_RELOAD variable in conf/settings.py.
-- http://code.google.com/p/django-rosetta/
What kind of server are you running?
I had the same problem with Apache2 and FastCGI. I had to restart the FastCGI Process to see the modifications.
Have you added the local path properly to your settings?
PROJECT_PATH = os.path.split(os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(__file__)))[0]
LOCALE_PATHS = (
os.path.join(PROJECT_PATH, "locale"),
)
Do you have translations marked as fuzzy? (In Rosetta you can filter to display only fuzzy translations.) If some strings are fuzzy, make sure they are properly translated, uncheck the fuzzy flag and save the translations.
Another reason for translations not showing up could be that some python formatting strings (e.g. 'My %s apple') are not properly reproduced in the translated string. If formatting codes are unbalanced Rosetta should warn you, and the actual translation doesn't get written to the file.

Django i18n: makemessages only on site level possible?

I have several strings in my site that don't belong to any app, for example
{% block title %}{% trans "Login" %}{% endblock %}
or a modified authentication form used to set the locale cookie
class AuthenticationFormWithLocaleOption(AuthenticationForm):
locale = forms.ChoiceField(choices = settings.LANGUAGES,
required = False,
initial = preselectedLocale,
label = _("Locale/language"))
Now when I execute django-admin.py makemessages --all -e .html,.template in the site directory, it extracts the strings from all Python, .html and .template files, including those in my apps. That is because I develop my apps inside that directory:
Directory structure:
sitename
myapp1
myapp2
Is there any way to extract all strings that are not in my apps?
The only solution I found is to move the app directories outside the site directory structure, but I'm using bzr-externals (similar to git submodules or svn externals) so that doesn't make sense in my case.
Moving stuff that needs translation into a new app is also possible but I don't know if that is the only reasonable solution.
According to the documentation you could run makemessages from the app you like to translate, creating only the message files for that specific app. It is also possible to filter out some specific folders by using makemessages' --ignore argument. The results between those two would be quite different, though.

django internationalization and translations issue

I have a problem with django translations.
Problem 1 - I updated string in django.po file, but the change does not appear on the webpage.
Problem 2 - I have created my own locale file with django-admin.py makemessages -l et, added the translation string into file, but they too do not appear on the page.
I do not think this is setting problem, because the translations from django.po file do appear on the website, its just the changes and the translations from my own generated file that do not appear.
Edit:
My settings.py contains this:
gettext = lambda s: s
LANGUAGE_CODE = 'et'
LANGUAGES = (
('et', gettext('Estonian')),
)
my own locale files are in
/path/to/project/locale/et/LC_MESSAGES/
and the files are
django.mo and django.po
the file I refer to in problem 1 is django own et transaltion, which I changed.
Well, I got this same error a few moments ago. I solved it deleting the "#, fuzzy" tag over the translation strings in my django.po files. It seems that translated text is not served if it got this tag, so make sure to translate the text and then delete this line.
Here is an example of a translated text not server on a po file:
#: course/models.py:13
#, fuzzy
msgid "code"
msgstr "código"
So, just delete the flag and leave it like this:
#: course/models.py:13
msgid "code"
msgstr "código"
I hope this work for you. Good luck!
Reference: http://share-experiences.com/blog/what-fuzzy-means-python-django-gettext/
PD: I know you got this issue a few month ago, but I leave this response due that you we never heard if you got this problem solved.
Had a same/similar issue with translations not showing up. Setting the LOCALE_PATHS fixed the issue:
# settings.py
USE_I18N = True
USE_L10N = True
LOCALE_PATHS = (
'/path/to/djangoapp/locale',
)
Translation files (PO) are loaded in memory only one time, changes to the PO files are not picked up by Django. In order to load the new translation files you need to restart Django (eg. stop/start runserver, Apache or NGINX).
One additional reason for Django translations not working is to compile the .po file with a Python version different than the one being used to run your application. Make sure you use the same version.
Make sure to use ugettext_lazy and not ugettext
If you are using gettext.translation to get the translations, i.e:
text_de = gettext.translation('django', locale_dir, ['de'], fallback=True).ugettext('Welcome to my site')
... and your translation works on the development server but not on production, note that locale_dir must point to your locale directory. It might be located elsewhere on one of the systems. Spent like 2 hrs finding it.
Check for the USE_I18N setting. More info. Anyway, I think by default it's True...