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Django multilingual - how to preview content from any language?

I'm using django-multilingual for a Django based website. When I define the __unicode__ function for a model to return this way:

def __unicode__(self):
        return unicode(self.title)

However my default language is English and I have some items that are inserted in Dutch only. When I preview the full list, I get "None" as a title.

Is there an easy way to try to get the English title and then check for a title in any other language just for preview?

Solution

  • Iterating over all translations can be easily done like this:

    >>> translations = [getattr(obj, "name_" + lang[0].replace("-","_")) for lang in
settings.LANGUAGES]

    Where obj is the model object, and lang will represent a tuple ('bg', 'Bulgarian') from your settings file.

    lang[0].replace("-","_") is required, in case that you have languages like "uk-gb", because those values are placed into name_uk_gb