Py-l18n

Internationalization for pytz timezones and territories

As you may have noticed, l18n is a contraction of i18n and l10n, namely ‘internationalisation’ and ‘localization’. It basically provides lazy translations for names used for localization purposes e.g. places and timezones.

I started writing l18n when I was looking for translations for the pytz library. Indeed, on a multi-lingual site where users can select the timezone they are in, it’s much better if they can select in their language, as in some cases, the differences with the english name can be significant, hence the place to look for it when it’s sorted in alphabetical order.

And as I am lazy, I thought of a way to - almost - automatically fetch the translations from the CLDR Unicode’s Common Locale Data Repository database.

Integrating function to link timezone to country codes, there was no reason not to try and provide translations also for the latter. In the near future, I - or contributors - may also add currencies or measurement units fetched from the CLDR database …