Internationalization documentation

[dolma33@…]

Ok, you won't believe this one: neither do I
(and I've seen a lot of mistakes done by myself during my programming years --- I'm not such an experienced programmer, but I try)

I'm so involved in internationalization, that I'm always reading online questions about this topic, trying to learn something more, and to help other people in the (rare) fortunate case that I know how to help them.

In several communities/forums/etc I've stumbled on several people posting tickets (with titles like "Django Internationalization not working" )
where the error was simply that they're copy-pasting the code in this documentation part
​https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.3/topics/i18n/internationalization/#the-set-language-redirect-view
without noticing that in this line
<input name="next" type="hidden" value="/next/page/" />
The "/next/page/" string is just an example.
(They actually used "/next/page/" as a value)

Ok, things likte this can happen to everyone, we know that.
At the beginning I thought that it was because the askers were newbies, but I've seen this issue also from more advanced people...
The reason could be maybe distraction, maybe faith... I don't know...
But the fact is that too many programmers made the same mistake,
so maybe this part of the documentation could be improved in someway
(I don't know... maybe a simple change like "/next/page/path/" or "next_page" or "desired_next_page" could help)

Thank you

Anna Dolma Alonso
Biodiversity Informatics
Fundación Charles Darwin
Galapagos

[Bas Peschier]

Please don't set the "has patch" flag without actually providing the patch as attachment!

A little nudge that the HTML uses an example url could not hurt; creating a patch for it.

[Aymeric Augustin]

Oops, we just has a concurrency issue on this ticket :) Attaching my own version.

[Bas Peschier]

aaugustin's version is better, just improved one sentence.

[Aymeric Augustin]

In [17560]:

Fixed #17319 -- Made the example for set_language less error-prone. Thanks Anna Dolma Alonso for the report.

[Aymeric Augustin]

In [17561]:

[1.3.X] Fixed #17319 -- Made the example for set_language less error-prone. Backport of r17560 from trunk.