Commit fa76275e authored by Mitch Davis's avatar Mitch Davis Committed by Tim Graham
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[1.6.x] Clarified that makemessages -l takes a locale name, not a language code. 

Backport of 5473c36c from master
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docs/topics/i18n/translation.txt

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@@ -1221,10 +1221,9 @@ To create or update a message file, run this command:: 


    django-admin.py makemessages -l de



...where ``de`` is the language code for the message file you want to create.

The language code, in this case, is in :term:`locale format<locale name>`. For

example, it's ``pt_BR`` for Brazilian Portuguese and ``de_AT`` for Austrian

German.

...where ``de`` is the :term:`locale name` for the message file you want to

create. For example, ``pt_BR`` for Brazilian Portuguese, ``de_AT`` for Austrian

German or ``id`` for Indonesian.



The script should be run from one of two places: