#13973 closed (duplicate)
Get current language name filter in templates
| Reported by: | Owned by: | nobody | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Component: | Translations | Version: | 1.2 |
| Severity: | Keywords: | language name | |
| Cc: | Triage Stage: | Unreviewed | |
| Has patch: | no | Needs documentation: | no |
| Needs tests: | no | Patch needs improvement: | no |
| Easy pickings: | no | UI/UX: | no |
Description
Currently there's no way to retrieve current language name easily in templates. You can only use {% get_current_language ... %} filter to get the language code (eg. 'en-us' or 'de-de').
There should be a template filter in django.templatetags.i18n to get the "English" or "German" strings (verbose name of the language).
Example:
#settings.py:
LANGUAGES = (
('de', 'German'),
('en', 'English'),
)
#templates:
{% get_current_language as LANGUAGE_CODE %} # Existing filter. Returns en-us if language is english.
{% get_current_language_name as LANGUAGE_NAME %} # Proposed filter. Should return 'English' if LANGUAGE_CODE is 'en'. Basically should return the second element of settings.LANGUAGES touples.
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This is part of what has been proposed and discussed on #4030.
That ticket has been accepted by two core developers and has a patch that contains documentation and test (although it could be outdated, perhaps we could revive it and propose for 1.3). For that reason I'm closing this ticket as duplicate.