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Mastering Django: Core
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Mastering Django: Core

by Nigel George
December 2016
Beginner to intermediate
694 pages
14h 2m
English
Packt Publishing
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Internationalization: In Javascript code

Adding translations to JavaScript poses some problems:

  • JavaScript code doesn't have access to a gettext implementation.
  • JavaScript code doesn't have access to .po or .mo files; they need to be delivered by the server.
  • The translation catalogs for JavaScript should be kept as small as possible.

Django provides an integrated solution for these problems: It passes the translations into JavaScript, so you can call gettext, and so on, from within JavaScript.

The javascript_catalog view

The main solution to these problems is the django.views.i18n.javascript_catalog() view, which sends out a JavaScript code library with functions that mimic the gettext interface, plus an array of translation strings.

Those translation ...

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