django-cooki18n

Django's builtin i18n support stores the selected language in the session. This approach has the following problems:

• Sessions are created for anonymous users when they switch language
• It may lead to caching issues (the pages are set to "Vary-Cookie", but in fact the session cookie does not change when the language switches)

The above is captured in the following Django tickets.

• https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/12794
• https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/15902

This little project aims to be a drop in replacement for Django's i18n so that you can have the language stored in a cookie, which is in line with what ticket 12794 requests.

Installation

Simply follow the Django i18n instructions. However:

• Use cooki18n.middleware.LocaleMiddleware instead of django.middleware.locale.LocaleMiddleware
• Use cooki18n.views.set_language instead of django.views.i18n.set_language
• Use cooki18n.utils.get_language_from_request instead of django.utils.translation.get_language_from_request