Mastering Django: Core

Internationalization: In URL patterns

Django provides two mechanisms to internationalize URL patterns:

• Adding the language prefix to the root of the URL patterns to make it possible for LocaleMiddleware to detect the language to activate from the requested URL.
• Making URL patterns themselves translatable via the django.utils.translation.ugettext_lazy() function.

Using either one of these features requires that an active language be set for each request; in other words, you need to have django.middleware.locale.LocaleMiddleware in your MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES setting.

Language prefix in URL patterns

This function can be used in your root URLconf and Django will automatically prepend the current active language code to all URL patterns defined within i18n_patterns() ...