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Django - LANGUAGE_CODE - 'en-IN' does not work, but 'hi-IN' works

Django version 2.2 and 3.0

Purpose: I would like to display numbers in India locale format. For e.g. 1000000 should be displayed as 10,00,000

Action To do this, I went to settings.py and made the following changes:

  1. LANGUAGE_CODE = 'IN' - date and time was displayed in Indonesian format but grouping of numbers were correct

  2. LANGUAGE_CODE = 'en-IN' - date and time was displayed properly but grouping of numbers were incorrect

  3. LANGUAGE_CODE = 'hi-IN' - date and time had Hindi language display but grouping of numbers were correct

What I want

LANGUAGE_CODE = 'en-IN' to display date and time properly and also do number grouping

My settings.py file :

LANGUAGE_CODE = 'en-IN' 
TIME_ZONE = 'Asia/Kolkata'
USE_I18N = True
USE_L10N = True
USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR = True
NUMBER_GROUPING = (3,2, 0)
USE_TZ = True

I had a look at Number Grouping which actually talked about this but I believe documentation is misleading. For starters they have put language code as en_IN which doesn't work.

Let me know if any additional information needed.

Solution

  • I created a folder under my app called formats.

    I placed a file called formats.py where I added the following :

    NUMBER_GROUPING = (3,2,0)
THOUSAND_SEPARATOR = ','
DECIMAL_SEPARATOR = '.'
DATE_INPUT_FORMATS = ['%d-%m-%Y']