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.. _topics-i18n-localization:
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Localization
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This document covers two localization-related topics: `Creating language
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files`_ and `locale aware date, time and numbers input/output in forms`_
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.. _`Creating language files`: how-to-create-language-files_
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.. _`locale aware date, time and numbers input/output in forms`: format-localization_
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.. seealso::
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The :ref:`howto-i18n` document included with the Django HOW-TO documents collection.
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.. _how-to-create-language-files:
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How to create language files
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============================
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Once the string literals of an application have been tagged for later
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translation, the translation themselves need to be written (or obtained). Here's
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how that works.
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.. _locale-restrictions:
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.. admonition:: Locale restrictions
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Django does not support localizing your application into a locale for which
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Django itself has not been translated. In this case, it will ignore your
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translation files. If you were to try this and Django supported it, you
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would inevitably see a mixture of translated strings (from your application)
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and English strings (from Django itself). If you want to support a locale
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for your application that is not already part of Django, you'll need to make
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at least a minimal translation of the Django core.
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A good starting point is to copy the Django English ``.po`` file and to
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translate at least some :term:`translation strings <translation string>`.
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Message files
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-------------
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The first step is to create a :term:`message file` for a new language. A message
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file is a plain-text file, representing a single language, that contains all
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available translation strings and how they should be represented in the given
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language. Message files have a ``.po`` file extension.
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Django comes with a tool, ``django-admin.py makemessages``, that automates the
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creation and upkeep of these files.
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.. admonition:: A note to Django veterans
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The old tool ``bin/make-messages.py`` has been moved to the command
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``django-admin.py makemessages`` to provide consistency throughout Django.
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.. admonition:: Gettext utilities
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The ``makemessages`` command (and ``compilemessages`` discussed later) use
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commands from the GNU gettext toolset: ``xgetetxt``, ``msgfmt``,
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``msgmerge`` and ``msguniq``.
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.. versionchanged:: 1.2
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The minimum version of the ``gettext`` utilities supported is 0.15.
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To create or update a message file, run this command::
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django-admin.py makemessages -l de
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...where ``de`` is the language code for the message file you want to create.
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The language code, in this case, is in :term:`locale format<locale name>`. For
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example, it's ``pt_BR`` for Brazilian Portuguese and ``de_AT`` for Austrian
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German.
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The script should be run from one of two places:
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* The root directory of your Django project.
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* The root directory of your Django app.
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The script runs over your project source tree or your application source tree
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and pulls out all strings marked for translation. It creates (or updates) a
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message file in the directory ``locale/LANG/LC_MESSAGES``. In the ``de``
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example, the file will be ``locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/django.po``.
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By default ``django-admin.py makemessages`` examines every file that has the
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``.html`` file extension. In case you want to override that default, use the
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``--extension`` or ``-e`` option to specify the file extensions to examine::
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django-admin.py makemessages -l de -e txt
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Separate multiple extensions with commas and/or use ``-e`` or ``--extension``
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multiple times::
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django-admin.py makemessages -l de -e html,txt -e xml
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When :ref:`creating message files from JavaScript source code
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<creating-message-files-from-js-code>` you need to use the special 'djangojs'
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domain, **not** ``-e js``.
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.. admonition:: No gettext?
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If you don't have the ``gettext`` utilities installed, ``django-admin.py
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makemessages`` will create empty files. If that's the case, either install
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the ``gettext`` utilities or just copy the English message file
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(``locale/en/LC_MESSAGES/django.po``) if available and use it as a starting
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point; it's just an empty translation file.
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.. admonition:: Working on Windows?
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If you're using Windows and need to install the GNU gettext utilities so
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``django-admin makemessages`` works see :ref:`gettext_on_windows` for more
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information.
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The format of ``.po`` files is straightforward. Each ``.po`` file contains a
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small bit of metadata, such as the translation maintainer's contact
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information, but the bulk of the file is a list of **messages** -- simple
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mappings between translation strings and the actual translated text for the
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particular language.
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For example, if your Django app contained a translation string for the text
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``"Welcome to my site."``, like so::
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_("Welcome to my site.")
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...then ``django-admin.py makemessages`` will have created a ``.po`` file
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containing the following snippet -- a message::
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#: path/to/python/module.py:23
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msgid "Welcome to my site."
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msgstr ""
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A quick explanation:
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* ``msgid`` is the translation string, which appears in the source. Don't
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change it.
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* ``msgstr`` is where you put the language-specific translation. It starts
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out empty, so it's your responsibility to change it. Make sure you keep
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the quotes around your translation.
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* As a convenience, each message includes, in the form of a comment line
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prefixed with ``#`` and located above the ``msgid`` line, the filename and
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line number from which the translation string was gleaned.
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Long messages are a special case. There, the first string directly after the
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``msgstr`` (or ``msgid``) is an empty string. Then the content itself will be
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written over the next few lines as one string per line. Those strings are
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directly concatenated. Don't forget trailing spaces within the strings;
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otherwise, they'll be tacked together without whitespace!
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.. admonition:: Mind your charset
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When creating a PO file with your favorite text editor, first edit
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the charset line (search for ``"CHARSET"``) and set it to the charset
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you'll be using to edit the content. Due to the way the ``gettext`` tools
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work internally and because we want to allow non-ASCII source strings in
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Django's core and your applications, you **must** use UTF-8 as the encoding
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for your PO file. This means that everybody will be using the same
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encoding, which is important when Django processes the PO files.
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To reexamine all source code and templates for new translation strings and
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update all message files for **all** languages, run this::
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django-admin.py makemessages -a
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Compiling message files
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-----------------------
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After you create your message file -- and each time you make changes to it --
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you'll need to compile it into a more efficient form, for use by ``gettext``.
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Do this with the ``django-admin.py compilemessages`` utility.
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This tool runs over all available ``.po`` files and creates ``.mo`` files, which
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are binary files optimized for use by ``gettext``. In the same directory from
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which you ran ``django-admin.py makemessages``, run ``django-admin.py
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compilemessages`` like this::
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django-admin.py compilemessages
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That's it. Your translations are ready for use.
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.. admonition:: A note to Django veterans
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The old tool ``bin/compile-messages.py`` has been moved to the command
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``django-admin.py compilemessages`` to provide consistency throughout
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Django.
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.. admonition:: Working on Windows?
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If you're using Windows and need to install the GNU gettext utilities so
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``django-admin compilemessages`` works see :ref:`gettext_on_windows` for more
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information.
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.. _creating-message-files-from-js-code:
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Creating message files from JavaScript source code
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==================================================
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You create and update the message files the same way as the other Django message
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files -- with the ``django-admin.py makemessages`` tool. The only difference is
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you need to provide a ``-d djangojs`` parameter, like this::
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django-admin.py makemessages -d djangojs -l de
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This would create or update the message file for JavaScript for German.
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After updating message files, just run ``django-admin.py compilemessages``
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the same way as you do with normal Django message files.
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.. _gettext_on_windows:
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``gettext`` on Windows
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======================
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This is only needed for people who either want to extract message IDs or compile
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message files (``.po``). Translation work itself just involves editing existing
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files of this type, but if you want to create your own message files, or want to
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test or compile a changed message file, you will need the ``gettext`` utilities:
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* Download the following zip files from the GNOME servers
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http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/binaries/win32/dependencies/ or from one
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of its mirrors_
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* ``gettext-runtime-X.zip``
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* ``gettext-tools-X.zip``
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``X`` is the version number, we are requiring ``0.15`` or higher.
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* Extract the contents of the ``bin\`` directories in both files to the
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same folder on your system (i.e. ``C:\Program Files\gettext-utils``)
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* Update the system PATH:
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* ``Control Panel > System > Advanced > Environment Variables``.
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* In the ``System variables`` list, click ``Path``, click ``Edit``.
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* Add ``;C:\Program Files\gettext-utils\bin`` at the end of the
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``Variable value`` field.
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.. _mirrors: http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/MIRRORS
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You may also use ``gettext`` binaries you have obtained elsewhere, so long as
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the ``xgettext --version`` command works properly. Do not attempt to use Django
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translation utilities with a ``gettext`` package if the command ``xgettext
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--version`` entered at a Windows command prompt causes a popup window saying
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"xgettext.exe has generated errors and will be closed by Windows".
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.. _format-localization:
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Format localization
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===================
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.. versionadded:: 1.2
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Django's formatting system is disabled by default. To enable it, it's
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necessary to set :setting:`USE_L10N = True <USE_L10N>` in your settings file.
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.. note::
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The default :file:`settings.py` file created by
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:djadmin:`django-admin.py startproject <startproject>` includes
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:setting:`USE_L10N = True <USE_L10N>` for convenience.
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When using Django's formatting system, dates and numbers on templates will be
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displayed using the format specified for the current locale. Two users
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accessing the same content, but in different language, will see date and
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number fields formatted in different ways, depending on the format for their
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current locale.
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Django will also use localized formats when parsing data in forms. That means
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Django uses different formats for different locales when guessing the format
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used by the user when inputting data on forms. Note that Django uses different
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formats for displaying data, and for parsing it.
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Creating custom format files
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----------------------------
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Django provides format definitions for many locales, but sometimes you might
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want to create your own, because a format files doesn't exist for your locale,
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or because you want to overwrite some of the values.
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To use custom formats, first thing to do, is to specify the path where you'll
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place format files. To do that, just set your :setting:`FORMAT_MODULE_PATH`
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setting to the path (in the format ``'foo.bar.baz``) where format files
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will exists.
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Files are not placed directly in this directory, but in a directory named as
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the locale, and must be named ``formats.py``.
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To customize the English formats, a structure like this would be needed::
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mysite/
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formats/
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__init__.py
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en/
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__init__.py
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formats.py
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where :file:`formats.py` contains custom format definitions. For example::
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THOUSAND_SEPARATOR = ' '
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to use a space as a thousand separator, instead of the default for English,
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a comma.
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