[FIXED] Django uses untranslated strings instead of translations

Issue

I have a small Django application, which I tried to localize. In the urls.py I have

urlpatterns += i18n_patterns(
path('add_request/',AddRequest.as_view(),name='add_request'),
path('add_offer/', AddOffer.as_view(), name='add_offer'),
)

In the settings.py I have

MIDDLEWARE = [
'django.middleware.security.SecurityMiddleware',
'django.contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware',
'django.middleware.locale.LocaleMiddleware',
'django.middleware.common.CommonMiddleware',
'django.middleware.csrf.CsrfViewMiddleware',
'django.contrib.auth.middleware.AuthenticationMiddleware',
'django.contrib.messages.middleware.MessageMiddleware',
'django.middleware.clickjacking.XFrameOptionsMiddleware',
]

and

LANGUAGE_CODE = 'de'

TIME_ZONE = 'UTC'

USE_I18N = True

USE_L10N = True
LOCAL_PATHS = (
    os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'locale/'),
)

USE_TZ = True
LANGUAGES= [
    ('en', 'English'),
    ('de', 'German')
]

I have marked strings for translation in my models.py (verbose_name), the forms.py (label) and in a template.

I extracted po files via

django-admin makemessages -l en
django-admin makemessages -l de

Translated them and ran

django-admin compilemessages

Now I have the prefixes de/ and en/ for my urls. The Locale seems to be set correctly, as date input fields change to the right date format, but the translations are not used.

Solution

I'm an idiot. It is of course supposed to be LOCALE_PATHS, instead of LOCAL_PATHS.

Answered By - loreson