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'

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