Let's make a multilingual site using flask-babel

I made it with another language site using flask-babel, so I documented how to make it

I referred to this site, but some of them were written about 5 years ago and do not match the current situation. So I modified it a little.

The sample code is posted on github here. https://github.com/shibacow/flask_babel_sample (Actually, this alone may have achieved the intent of this blog). I think it works if I clone the above repository and put Flask and Flask-Babel in it.

Installation

flask-babel is a library for realizing i18n with flask. The site of flask-babel is here

Install using pip as follows

pip install Flask-Babel

You can go with the original site.

Preparing for automatic language discrimination

https://github.com/shibacow/flask_babel_sample/blob/master/srv.py

@babel.localeselector
def get_locale():
    return request.accept_languages.best_match(['ko','zh','ja', 'ja_JP', 'en'])

Can be automatically determined with.

Preparation of translation source html

https://github.com/shibacow/flask_babel_sample/blob/master/templates/hello.html

Like,

<p>
  message: {{ gettext('Hello world!') }}
</p>

Prepare a sentence enclosed in gettext like. You may use `_ ()` like message: {{_ ('Hello world!')}}` `. This'Hello world!'` `` Is the target of the replacement wording.

translation

After that, prepare babel.cfg as shown in this article,

$ pybabel extract -F babel.cfg -k lazy_gettext -o messages.pot .
$ pybabel init -i messages.pot -d translations -l ja

You can create a ja folder under translations.

With a similar feeling

$ pybabel init -i messages.pot -d translations -l en
$ pybabel init -i messages.pot -d translations -l zh
$ pybabel init -i messages.pot -d translations -l ko

And so on. Language locale names such as ko and zh seem to be determined by the code ISO-639-1 (https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_639-1%E3%82%B3%E3%83% BC% E3% 83% 89% E4% B8% 80% E8% A6% A7)

Then

https://github.com/shibacow/flask_babel_sample/blob/master/translations/ja/LC_MESSAGES/messages.po

Can be done. Open messages.po and put the translated wording in msgid under msgid. msgid is included, but msgid is not included, so fill in the wording you translated yourself.

After translating all the languages

$ pybabel compile -d translations

Compile with. If the word fuzzy is included in /messages.po, it will not be compiled (it is considered to be in the process of translation), so remove the word fuzzy from messages.po.

After compiling, you will have messages.mo.

https://github.com/shibacow/flask_babel_sample/blob/master/translations/ja/LC_MESSAGES/messages.mo

It looks like a binary file.

Confirmation of translation results

If you execute python srv.py in this state, the part that originally contains Hello World will be changed depending on the language selection of the browser.

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