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Fixed #11714 - Document a few of the i18n function that can be used outside views and templates. Thanks, Jarek Zgoda and Ramiro Morales.

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@@ -70,3 +70,36 @@ The easiest way out is to store applications that are not part of the project
``django-admin.py makemessages`` on the project level will only translate
strings that are connected to your explicit project and not strings that are
distributed independently.
Using translations outside views and templates
==============================================
While Django provides a rich set of i18n tools for use in views and templates,
it does not restrict the usage to Django-specific code. The Django translation
mechanisms can be used to translate arbitrary texts to any language that is
supported by Django (as long as an appropriate translation catalog exists, of
course). You can load a translation catalog, activate it and translate text to
language of your choice, but remember to switch back to original language, as
activating a translation catalog is done on per-thread basis and such change
will affect code running in the same thread.
For example::
from django.utils import translation
def welcome_translated(language):
cur_language = translation.get_language()
try:
translation.activate(language)
text = translation.ugettext('welcome')
finally:
translation.activate(cur_language)
return text
Calling this function with the value 'de' will give you ``"Willkommen"``,
regardless of :setting:`LANGUAGE_CODE` and language set by middleware.
Functions of particular interest are ``django.utils.translation.get_language()``
which returns the language used in the current thread,
``django.utils.translation.activate()`` which activates a translation catalog
for the current thread, and ``django.utils.translation.check_for_language()``
which checks if the given language is supported by Django.