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| -rw-r--r-- | docs/i18n.txt | 7 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/docs/i18n.txt b/docs/i18n.txt index cffc58011e..bf73c88008 100644 --- a/docs/i18n.txt +++ b/docs/i18n.txt @@ -669,8 +669,11 @@ To create message files, you use the same ``make-messages.py`` tool as with the Django message files. You only need to be in the right place -- in the directory where either the ``conf/locale`` (in case of the source tree) or the ``locale/`` (in case of app messages or project messages) directory are located. And you -use the same ``compile-messages.py`` to produce the binary ``django.mo`` files that -are used by ``gettext``. +use the same ``compile-messages.py`` to produce the binary ``django.mo`` files +that are used by ``gettext``. + +You can also run ``compile-message.py --settings=path.to.settings`` to make +the compiler process all the directories in your ``LOCALE_PATHS`` setting. Application message files are a bit complicated to discover -- they need the ``LocaleMiddleware``. If you don't use the middleware, only the Django message |