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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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Preparing your project for internationalization

Let’s prepare your project to use different languages. You are going to create an English and a Spanish version for your shop. Edit the settings.py file of your project and add the following LANGUAGES setting to it. Place it next to the LANGUAGE_CODE setting:

LANGUAGES = [
    ('en', 'English'),
    ('es', 'Spanish'),
]

The LANGUAGES setting contains two tuples that consist of a language code and a name. Language codes can be locale-specific, such as en-us or en-gb, or generic, such as en. With this setting, you specify that your application will only be available in English and Spanish. If you don’t define a custom LANGUAGES setting, the site will be available in all the languages that Django is translated into.

Make your LANGUAGE_CODE setting look like the following:

LANGUAGE_CODE = 'en'

Add 'django.middleware.locale.LocaleMiddleware' to...

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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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