Internationalization
The administration interface for researchers currently only supports English. The participation interface currently supports English and German.
Language Detection
The language in which the interface for participants is displayed is determined by the default language of the participant’s browser. If a language is not implemented for the participant interface, it is displayed in English.
Adding Support for new Languages
To add support for a new language, new locales must be added at two locations:
Django Components
Translations for the Django part of DDM are located at /ddm/locale/.
An extensive description of how translation is handled by Django can be found here: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.2/topics/i18n/translation/
To create the translation files, first run django-admin makemessages -l de in
the respective ddm sub-app directory, where de is the locale name that you want to create.
This command creates or updates a file located at ddm/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/django.po.
In this file, you can add your translations. Afterward, run django-admin compilemessages
to create a django.mo file, which will be used by gettext for translation.