Internationalization and localization

We are currently hosting all translations of Open edX framework on www.transifex.com. Please feel free to make translation contributions there.

You should also join the openedx-translation Google Group.

In order to run your Open edX instance under a different spoken language, for instance for Spanish (Latin American):

1. Configure your ~/.transifexrc file:

    [https://www.transifex.com]
    hostname = https://www.transifex.com
    username = user
    password = pass
    token =

Token is left blank. You have to have permissions for the project (edx-platform) AFAIK - https://www.transifex.com/projects/p/edx-platform/

2. Add the language you want in conf/locale/config, for instance for the language es_419 (Spanish Latinamerican) it is going to be:

{
 "locales" : ["en", "es_419"],
 "dummy-locale" : "eo"
}

3. Configure it in your lms/env/environment.py, for instance create one called dev_es.py with the following:

from .dev import *

USE_I18N = True
LANGUAGES = ( ('es_419', 'Spanish'), )
TIME_ZONE = 'America/Guayaquil'
LANGUAGE_CODE = 'es_419'

4. Execute the following commands in your edx-platform directory with your edx-platform virtualenv, replacing it with the language you want.

$ tx pull -l es_419
$ rake i18n:generate

5. When you launch your LMS instance you launch it with the environment:

$ rake lms[dev_es,0.0.0.0:8000]