[Django]-Google App Engine site built for international audience, multiple languages

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All three of those are possibilities from a development standpoint. The “domain extension” model is likely to prove to be expensive and possibly impossible depending on your resources and the languages you wish to support – .fr for example is restricted to only residents or entities with a French presence.

The “first folder” model may not be that difficult to program for. When setting up your handlers, you could do something like this:

application = webapp.WSGIApplication(
[
  ('/(en|fr|de)/', IndexController),
]

Which would then explicitly pass the language identifier in as the first parameter to the handler.

Subdomains, as you pointed out, are going to be the cleanest from a url perspective. As noted in the PythonRuntime Environment docs you can map multiple subdomains to the same application – in fact hosted applications will all respond to [anything].[application name].appspot.com. The host used for access can be extracted from the request object.

Overall it seems like more of a personal preference than anything else.

👤lantius

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I just wanted to point out that this could also be done with a prefix in the url.
Like these:

www.site.com/en/rest_of_url

www.site.com/fr/rest_of_url

the app would be setup like this:

 class LanguageHandler(webapp2.RequestHandler):
     def dispatch(self):
         request = self.request
         args = request.route_args
         if len(args) and args[0] in ['en','fr']:
             self.language = args[0]
             request.route_args = args[1:]
         try:
             # Dispatch the request.
             webapp2.RequestHandler.dispatch(self)
         finally:
             # The web page response Header will now include the 2 letter language code...
             self.response.headers['Content-Language'] = str(self.language)

 class HomePage(LanguageHandler):
     def get(self):
         # self.language is now 'en' or 'fr'
         # ...code goes here...

 app = webapp2.WSGIApplication([
     (r'/(en|fr)', HomePage),
 ], debug = True)
👤peawormsworth

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