how to add new languages into Django? My language “Uyghur” or “Uighur” is not supported in Django

Add a non available language to your Django app

ISO language code of Uighur ئۇيغۇر تىلى is ‘ug’.

In your settings.py:

from django.conf import global_settings

gettext_noop = lambda s: s

LANGUAGES = (
       ('ug', gettext_noop('Uighur')),
)

EXTRA_LANG_INFO = {
    'ug': {
        'bidi': True, # right-to-left
        'code': 'ug',
        'name': 'Uighur',
        'name_local': u'\u0626\u06C7\u064A\u063A\u06C7\u0631 \u062A\u0649\u0644\u0649', #unicode codepoints here
    },
}

# Add custom languages not provided by Django
import django.conf.locale
LANG_INFO = dict(django.conf.locale.LANG_INFO, **EXTRA_LANG_INFO)
django.conf.locale.LANG_INFO = LANG_INFO

# Languages using BiDi (right-to-left) layout
LANGUAGES_BIDI = global_settings.LANGUAGES_BIDI + ["ug"]

And:

manage.py makemessages -l ug
manage.py compilemessages

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