Internationalization and Localization Support

Overview

i18n support with IntelliJ IDEA falls into the following major aspects:

• Internationalization (i18n) involves extracting strings out of your source code and presenting them as properties that are further referenced in the source code.

• Localization enables translating these properties into the target languages.

Supported features

IntelliJ IDEA provides helpful features that simplify working on software internationalization and localization issues. These features are:

• Individual for files and directories.

• Advanced editing assistance for properties files.

• Auto-detection of resource bundles.

• Code inspections related to internationalization issues; intention actions, and quick fixes.

• Dedicated editor for performing mass actions within resource bundles.

Prerequisites

Internationalization and Localization support is available for the Django applications.

1. Download the gettext archive from http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/gettext/ utilities are downloaded and installed on your machine.

2. Unpack the downloaded archive.

3. Add the paths to the bin directories of gettext-runtime and gettext-tools to the $PATH variable.

4. Create the locale directory in the project root.

5. Set Django at the project template language.