Django 3 Web Development Cookbook - Fourth Edition

Working with model translation tables

The second approach to handling multilingual content in the database involves using model translation tables for each multilingual model.

The features of this approach are as follows:

• You can use contributed administration to edit translations as inlines.
• After changing the amount of languages in the settings, no migrations or other further actions are necessary.
• You can effortlessly show the translation of the current language in the template, but it would be more difficult to show several translations in specific languages on the same page.
• You have to know and use a specific pattern described in this recipe for creating model translations.
• It's not that simple to use this approach for database queries, ...