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Antonio Melé
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Antonio Melé has been crafting Django projects since 2006, for clients spanning multiple industries. He is Engineering Director at Backbase, a leading global fintech firm dedicated to facilitating the digital transformation of financial institutions. He co-founded Nucoro, a digital wealth management platform. In 2009 Antonio founded Zenx IT, a company specialized in developing digital products. He has been working as CTO and consultant for several tech-centric startups. He has also managed development teams building projects for large enterprise clients. He has an MSc in Computer Science from Universidad Pontificia Comillas and completed the Advanced Management Program at MIT Sloan. His father inspired his passion for computers and coding.
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Internationalization with Django

Django offers full internationalization and localization support. It allows you to translate your application into multiple languages and it handles locale-specific formatting for dates, times, numbers, and time zones. Let’s clarify the difference between internationalization and localization:

Internationalization (frequently abbreviated to i18n) is the process of adapting software for the potential use of different languages and locales so that it isn’t hardwired to a specific language or locale.

Localization (abbreviated to l10n) is the process of actually translating the software and adapting it to a particular locale. Django itself is translated into more than 50 languages using its internationalization framework.

The internationalization framework allows you to easily mark strings for translation, both in Python code and in your templates. It relies on the GNU gettext toolset to generate and manage message files. A message...

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Antonio Melé

Antonio Melé has been crafting Django projects since 2006, for clients spanning multiple industries. He is Engineering Director at Backbase, a leading global fintech firm dedicated to facilitating the digital transformation of financial institutions. He co-founded Nucoro, a digital wealth management platform. In 2009 Antonio founded Zenx IT, a company specialized in developing digital products. He has been working as CTO and consultant for several tech-centric startups. He has also managed development teams building projects for large enterprise clients. He has an MSc in Computer Science from Universidad Pontificia Comillas and completed the Advanced Management Program at MIT Sloan. His father inspired his passion for computers and coding.
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