# Internationalization **URL:** https://forum.djangoproject.com/c/internals/i18n/14.md [Latest](https://forum.djangoproject.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://forum.djangoproject.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://forum.djangoproject.com/tags.md) --- ## [Django 6.1 string freeze in effect, translations needed!](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/django-6-1-string-freeze-in-effect-translations-needed/45553)
**Author:** [@jacobtylerwalls](https://forum.djangoproject.com/u/jacobtylerwalls)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [July 25, 2026, 10:05am UTC](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/django-6-1-string-freeze-in-effect-translations-needed/45553 "2026-07-25T10:05:27Z")
Hello Translators! Django 6.1 release candidate 1 was released yesterday, establishing the string freeze for the 6.1 release. This means that strings marked for translations will not change between now and the final rel… --- ## [How best to tweak docs sidebar headings](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/how-best-to-tweak-docs-sidebar-headings/45484)
**Author:** [@smallsaucepan](https://forum.djangoproject.com/u/smallsaucepan)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [July 18, 2026, 4:16am UTC](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/how-best-to-tweak-docs-sidebar-headings/45484 "2026-07-18T04:16:25Z")
Hi Internationalisation. I noticed a couple of small tidy ups in the docs.djangoproject.com sidebar - “Download:” and “You are here:” are the only headings with trailing punctuation. At risk of turning a molehill into a… --- ## [django-localflavor 5.1 string freeze, release June 21, 2026](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/django-localflavor-5-1-string-freeze-release-june-21-2026/45450)
**Author:** [@benkonrath](https://forum.djangoproject.com/u/benkonrath)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [July 14, 2026, 6:38pm UTC](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/django-localflavor-5-1-string-freeze-release-june-21-2026/45450 "2026-07-14T18:38:38Z")
Hi, I plan on making the 5.1 release of django-localflavor on Tuesday June 21, 2026. Please update any outstanding translations before this date. Thank you, Ben --- ## [Casing problem in the Dutch Django admin](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/casing-problem-in-the-dutch-django-admin/42308)
**Author:** [@pieter](https://forum.djangoproject.com/u/pieter)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [July 13, 2026, 10:17pm UTC](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/casing-problem-in-the-dutch-django-admin/42308 "2026-07-13T22:17:22Z")
I have a remark about the Dutch translation of the Django admin. On the /admin/\[app\]/\[model\]/\[pk\]/change/ page, there’s a heading saying something along the lines of “Edit \[name of model\]”. This is translated to “\[name o… --- ## [Improving the process of incorporating translations to Django](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/improving-the-process-of-incorporating-translations-to-django/26140)
**Author:** [@nessita](https://forum.djangoproject.com/u/nessita)\ **Replies:** 18\ **Last updated:** [June 5, 2026, 2:16pm UTC](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/improving-the-process-of-incorporating-translations-to-django/26140 "2026-06-05T14:16:11Z")
Hello everyone, Following the release of Django 5.0, I got familiar with the process of incorporating translations from Transifex into the Django source tree. This process is very involved and cumbersome, requiring the … --- ## [Supporting c-string internationalization in python](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/supporting-c-string-internationalization-in-python/45192)
**Author:** [@sebeske](https://forum.djangoproject.com/u/sebeske)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [May 28, 2026, 1:50am UTC](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/supporting-c-string-internationalization-in-python/45192 "2026-05-28T01:50:09Z")
Hello, Django’s translation is awesome… except when it comes to translating python strings with variables inside them. Here is the doc Translation | Django documentation | Django And as much as I tried I could not get… --- ## [Pending change to one string in Django 6.0.6: translation deadline June 1](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/pending-change-to-one-string-in-django-6-0-6-translation-deadline-june-1/45100)
**Author:** [@jacobtylerwalls](https://forum.djangoproject.com/u/jacobtylerwalls)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [May 13, 2026, 3:47pm UTC](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/pending-change-to-one-string-in-django-6-0-6-translation-deadline-june-1/45100 "2026-05-13T15:47:22Z")
We merged a bugfix to a translation string and backported it to stable/6.0.x in this commit. (It’s an alert message in the admin that referenced a renamed button by its old name, so it could have been confusing.) The ne… --- ## [Request for korean translation team](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/request-for-korean-translation-team/44981)
**Author:** [@newroum](https://forum.djangoproject.com/u/newroum)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [April 25, 2026, 7:39am UTC](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/request-for-korean-translation-team/44981 "2026-04-25T07:39:05Z")
Hi, I’m Saerom Kim from Korea. I’m now diving into statistics, data journalism, and visualization. The Python community’s warmth and inclusivity first caught my attention at PyCon, and a fellow member who actively contri… --- ## [Hello, I’m joining the Korean Translation Team!](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/hello-i-m-joining-the-korean-translation-team/44980)
**Author:** [@yerii](https://forum.djangoproject.com/u/yerii)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [April 25, 2026, 4:01am UTC](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/hello-i-m-joining-the-korean-translation-team/44980 "2026-04-25T04:01:29Z")
Hello, I’m Yeri. I’m joining the Korean Translation Team. Thank you! --- ## [Request for Joining the Korean Translation Team!](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/request-for-joining-the-korean-translation-team/44979)
**Author:** [@iaminsam](https://forum.djangoproject.com/u/iaminsam)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [April 24, 2026, 10:21pm UTC](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/request-for-joining-the-korean-translation-team/44979 "2026-04-24T22:21:16Z")
Hello, my name is MinJi Park, and I am currently taking an Open Source Programming course. As part of my studies, I have been exploring ways to actively contribute to meaningful open source projects, and I am particularl… --- ## [Request for joining the Korean translation team](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/request-for-joining-the-korean-translation-team/44973)
**Author:** [@papinose06-lab](https://forum.djangoproject.com/u/papinose06-lab)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [April 24, 2026, 3:01pm UTC](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/request-for-joining-the-korean-translation-team/44973 "2026-04-24T15:01:44Z")
Hello, I am Seojin, and I’m currently studying AI Engineering at a university in Korea. I’d like to join the Korean translation team to contribute to the Korean documentation. I would appreciate your approval or any guid… --- ## [Request join the korean translation team](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/request-join-the-korean-translation-team/44958)
**Author:** [@1wos](https://forum.djangoproject.com/u/1wos)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [April 24, 2026, 1:54am UTC](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/request-join-the-korean-translation-team/44958 "2026-04-24T01:54:31Z")
Hi I’m somi based in Korea I’d love to contiribute to the Korean Django documnetation translation ! Looking forward to connecting with fellow traslators ! --- ## [Join the Korean translation team!](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/join-the-korean-translation-team/44962)
**Author:** [@edtech1179](https://forum.djangoproject.com/u/edtech1179)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [April 24, 2026, 1:53am UTC](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/join-the-korean-translation-team/44962 "2026-04-24T01:53:46Z")
Hi, I’m Jin. I’m interested in translating technical words into Korean. --- ## [Joining the Korean translation team!](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/joining-the-korean-translation-team/44956)
**Author:** [@chaneebaek](https://forum.djangoproject.com/u/chaneebaek)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [April 23, 2026, 4:43am UTC](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/joining-the-korean-translation-team/44956 "2026-04-23T04:43:16Z")
Hi! I’m Chanee. I’m interested in contributing to the Korean translation of the Django documentation. I’d be happy to join the project on Transifex :slight\_smile: --- ## [Translation to Turkish Language](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/translation-to-turkish-language/44402)
**Author:** [@CoderMungan](https://forum.djangoproject.com/u/CoderMungan)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [March 19, 2026, 9:57am UTC](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/translation-to-turkish-language/44402 "2026-03-19T09:57:28Z")
How did you make decisions as a community regarding documentation translations? What is your culture or process for implementing those decisions? The purpose of asking these questions is that I would like the documentat… --- ## [Discourage releasers from editing .po files by hand](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/discourage-releasers-from-editing-po-files-by-hand/44441)
**Author:** [@jacobtylerwalls](https://forum.djangoproject.com/u/jacobtylerwalls)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [March 11, 2026, 1:34pm UTC](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/discourage-releasers-from-editing-po-files-by-hand/44441 "2026-03-11T13:34:09Z")
During the life of a feature release, a releaser makes about 5 interactions with Transifex. Each time, the releaser is asked(\*) to skim the changes in incoming/outgoing PO files to revert possibly-noisy changes, for the … --- ## [Request to join the Japanese (ja) team](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/request-to-join-the-japanese-ja-team/44434)
**Author:** [@Favorite](https://forum.djangoproject.com/u/Favorite)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [March 9, 2026, 6:28pm UTC](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/request-to-join-the-japanese-ja-team/44434 "2026-03-09T18:28:10Z")
Hey, I submitted a request to join the Japanese translation team on Transiflex! If someone could review it that would be amazing! --- ## [Basque date declination](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/basque-date-declination/43205)
**Author:** [@uloidi](https://forum.djangoproject.com/u/uloidi)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [March 5, 2026, 2:35pm UTC](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/basque-date-declination/43205 "2026-03-05T14:35:07Z")
Hello everyone, I need some guidance on fixing Basque (Euskara) date localization. Our grammar requires conditional logic that Django’s static formats.py file doesn’t support. Here is a clear example of the problem: … --- ## [Request to join Spanish (es) Team](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/request-to-join-spanish-es-team/43974)
**Author:** [@Dust-Man](https://forum.djangoproject.com/u/Dust-Man)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [January 22, 2026, 5:47am UTC](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/request-to-join-spanish-es-team/43974 "2026-01-22T05:47:47Z")
Hi, I’m a native Spanish speaker with fluent English, and I’m interested in contributing to the Spanish translations of Django documentation. I have already requested to join the Spanish language team on Transifex by c… --- ## [Stop Django from creating fuzzy entries](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/stop-django-from-creating-fuzzy-entries/31518)
**Author:** [@OmidShojaee](https://forum.djangoproject.com/u/OmidShojaee)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [December 19, 2025, 3:15pm UTC](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/stop-django-from-creating-fuzzy-entries/31518 "2025-12-19T15:15:43Z")
Hello, I’m translating Django into my language and it creates some fuzzy entries in the .po file. One of them is Permissions from django.contrib.auth and the other one is Permission denied from a library I’ve installed… --- ## [Request to join Lithuanian team](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/request-to-join-lithuanian-team/43702)
**Author:** [@esperonus-karolis](https://forum.djangoproject.com/u/esperonus-karolis)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [December 12, 2025, 1:32pm UTC](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/request-to-join-lithuanian-team/43702 "2025-12-12T13:32:15Z")
Hi, I am Karolis from a Lithuanian company Esperonus. We develop an ERP solution using Django and using Django admin framework under the hood, however, the Lithuanian translations are lacking at best. I have translated … --- ## [Internationalization backport?](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/internationalization-backport/43638)
**Author:** [@yshng](https://forum.djangoproject.com/u/yshng)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [December 5, 2025, 9:40pm UTC](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/internationalization-backport/43638 "2025-12-05T21:40:01Z")
Hi, I have done some looking around on the Django documentation regarding backporting and it seems like new features are not typically backported. In my particular case, I was looking to backport the recent addition of … --- ## [Join Persian Translation Team](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/join-persian-translation-team/43597)
**Author:** [@ehs22n](https://forum.djangoproject.com/u/ehs22n)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [December 2, 2025, 10:48pm UTC](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/join-persian-translation-team/43597 "2025-12-02T22:48:07Z")
Hi Django translation team, I’m Ehsan, and I’d love to help translate Django documentation into Persian (fa). I saw that the Persian translation is currently at 0%, and I’m eager to start contributing. I’ve created an … --- ## [Request to join Croatian (hr) team](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/request-to-join-croatian-hr-team/43528)
**Author:** [@milotype](https://forum.djangoproject.com/u/milotype)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [November 24, 2025, 1:32pm UTC](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/request-to-join-croatian-hr-team/43528 "2025-11-24T13:32:29Z")
Please help me to become a member of the “Croatian” language team in the Jango projects, so I could translated missing strings. I have pressed the JOIN THIS PROJECT button at django localization | Transifex and selected… --- ## [Django 6.0 string freeze is in effect, translations needed!](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/django-6-0-string-freeze-is-in-effect-translations-needed/43509)
**Author:** [@nessita](https://forum.djangoproject.com/u/nessita)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [November 20, 2025, 1:10pm UTC](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/django-6-0-string-freeze-is-in-effect-translations-needed/43509 "2025-11-20T13:10:47Z")
Hello Translators! Django 6.0 release candidate 1 was released today, establishing the string freeze for the 6.0 release. This means that strings marked for translations will not change between now and the final releas… --- ## [Joining the Korean translation team](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/joining-the-korean-translation-team/43201)
**Author:** [@rimi0108](https://forum.djangoproject.com/u/rimi0108)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [October 17, 2025, 12:44am UTC](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/joining-the-korean-translation-team/43201 "2025-10-17T00:44:08Z")
Hi! My name is Hyerim, and I’m interested in contributing to the Korean translation of the Django documentation. I’m also part of the Djangonaut program. :star\_struck: I’ve been working with Django for a while and would… --- ## [Request to join Turkish (tr) team](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/request-to-join-turkish-tr-team/43180)
**Author:** [@ertgl](https://forum.djangoproject.com/u/ertgl)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [October 14, 2025, 7:49pm UTC](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/request-to-join-turkish-tr-team/43180 "2025-10-14T19:49:01Z")
Hello. I’d like to contribute to the Turkish (tr) translations, when I come across areas that could be improved. I’ve sent a request on Transifex. Would you consider adding me to the team? Links: GitHub profile Trans… --- ## [Request to join Arabic (ar) team](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/request-to-join-arabic-ar-team/43157)
**Author:** [@abdulrahman](https://forum.djangoproject.com/u/abdulrahman)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [October 11, 2025, 6:53pm UTC](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/request-to-join-arabic-ar-team/43157 "2025-10-11T18:53:23Z")
Hi, I’m a native Arabic speaker with working proficiency in English and Turkish. I’ve noticed a few missing admin translations and would like to contribute to improving them. Username: alfawal --- ## [invalid locale zh-hans, did you mean zh\_HAns?](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/invalid-locale-zh-hans-did-you-mean-zh-hans/42829)
**Author:** [@hfl](https://forum.djangoproject.com/u/hfl)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [October 6, 2025, 1:28am UTC](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/invalid-locale-zh-hans-did-you-mean-zh-hans/42829 "2025-10-06T01:28:01Z")
When I run command in the shell: django-admin makemessages -l zh-hans errors like: invalid locale zh-hans, did you mean zh\_HAns? why? my settings.py like: LANGUAGE\_CODE = ‘zh-hans’ TIME\_ZONE = ‘Asia/Shanghai’ USE… --- ## [Request to join Haitian Creole (ht) team on Transifex](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/request-to-join-haitian-creole-ht-team-on-transifex/42801)
**Author:** [@prepa24](https://forum.djangoproject.com/u/prepa24)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [September 12, 2025, 6:30pm UTC](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/request-to-join-haitian-creole-ht-team-on-transifex/42801 "2025-09-12T18:30:41Z")
Hello, my name is Jean Patrick Prenis and I’m from Haiti. I’d like to join the Haitian Creole (HT) translation team. I’ve sent the join request on Transifex using the account name Prepa24. … [Next page](https://forum.djangoproject.com/c/internals/i18n/14.md?page=1)