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authorTim Graham <timograham@gmail.com>2013-07-04 05:44:22 -0400
committerTim Graham <timograham@gmail.com>2013-07-04 05:44:22 -0400
commit231e31c690b020028940be76a1037297ba254ce0 (patch)
treed74028a2f5b4c3da3d5e46589b887127c7a1a9fc /docs
parent8759778185d0539bf9c11e3fda497a9486b9acab (diff)
Fixed #20690 -- Mentioned LOCALE_PATHS earlier in translation docs.
Thanks rene@ for the suggestion.
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diff --git a/docs/topics/i18n/translation.txt b/docs/topics/i18n/translation.txt
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--- a/docs/topics/i18n/translation.txt
+++ b/docs/topics/i18n/translation.txt
@@ -1242,9 +1242,11 @@ The script should be run from one of two places:
* The root directory of your Django app.
The script runs over your project source tree or your application source tree
-and pulls out all strings marked for translation. It creates (or updates) a
-message file in the directory ``locale/LANG/LC_MESSAGES``. In the ``de``
-example, the file will be ``locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/django.po``.
+and pulls out all strings marked for translation (see
+:ref:`how-django-discovers-translations` and be sure :setting:`LOCALE_PATHS`
+is configured correctly). It creates (or updates) a message file in the
+directory ``locale/LANG/LC_MESSAGES``. In the ``de`` example, the file will be
+``locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/django.po``.
By default :djadmin:`django-admin.py makemessages <makemessages>` examines every
file that has the ``.html`` or ``.txt`` file extension. In case you want to