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How do translations and localization work in Django?

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Dockerfile

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@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 FROM python:3.12-bullseye
 ENV PYTHONUNBUFFERED=1
+
+RUN apt update
+RUN apt install gettext -y

 RUN mkdir /code

djangocourse/settings.py

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@@ -149,13 +149,17 @@
 # Internationalization
 # https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/5.1/topics/i18n/

-LANGUAGE_CODE = 'en-us'
+LANGUAGE_CODE = 'es'  # remember to change this back to en-us!

 TIME_ZONE = 'UTC'

 USE_I18N = True

 USE_TZ = True
+
+LOCALE_PATHS = [
+    BASE_DIR / "locale"
+]


 # Static files (CSS, JavaScript, Images)