Askbot can support multiple languages on a single site, in which case urls are modified by a prefix made of a language code, e.g. base url /questions/ becomes /de/questions/ for the German localization.
Note
If you want to learn about configuration of individual languages please look here
In order to enable the multilingual setup add the following to the settings.py file:
ASKBOT_MULTILINGUAL=True
Also, activate the django’s locale middleware by adding to the MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES the following entry:
'django.middleware.locale.LocaleMiddleware',
There is a standard Django setting LANGUAGES, which enables specific languages. By default this setting contains very many languages. You will likely want to narrow in the settings.py file the choice of the available languages:
#it's important to use ugettext_lazy or ugettext_noop
#in the settings.py file
from django.utils.translation import ugettext_lazy as _
LANGUAGES = (
('de', _('German')),
('en', _('English'))
)
More on the usage of this setting can be read in the Django documentation.
The default language should be specified with the setting LANGUAGE_CODE. Users will be automatically redirected to the corresponding default language page from the non-prefixed urls.
There are a number of settings.py options that control the various aspects of the site localization - the behaviour of the software depending on the currently active language.. Please read more about the Localization of Askbot.