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authorMitch Davis <mjd@hackvana.com>2014-08-24 13:01:13 +1000
committerTim Graham <timograham@gmail.com>2014-08-26 08:11:59 -0400
commitfa76275e8a2fcad7a13c1a6fbf13764942225959 (patch)
treea2397c95d59a0860ba9e4542d2606d7f7b9db991 /docs
parent9bc10919809007fada06c0dc4bc5285f80e2e965 (diff)
[1.6.x] Clarified that makemessages -l takes a locale name, not a language code.
Backport of 5473c36cef from master
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diff --git a/docs/topics/i18n/translation.txt b/docs/topics/i18n/translation.txt
index 4c9a6ca656..acb574a1b1 100644
--- a/docs/topics/i18n/translation.txt
+++ b/docs/topics/i18n/translation.txt
@@ -1221,10 +1221,9 @@ To create or update a message file, run this command::
django-admin.py makemessages -l de
-...where ``de`` is the language code for the message file you want to create.
-The language code, in this case, is in :term:`locale format<locale name>`. For
-example, it's ``pt_BR`` for Brazilian Portuguese and ``de_AT`` for Austrian
-German.
+...where ``de`` is the :term:`locale name` for the message file you want to
+create. For example, ``pt_BR`` for Brazilian Portuguese, ``de_AT`` for Austrian
+German or ``id`` for Indonesian.
The script should be run from one of two places: