Translating our models
The last thing that we want to look at is how to translate our model data. Open the site and change to the French language. Your home page should be similar to the following screenshot:
You will notice that even though the static content—the one that we put in the template ourselves—is translated, the dynamic names of the movies are not. While this is acceptable for some sites, your model data should be translated as well in order to be truly internationalized. Django by default does not have any built-in method to achieve this, but it's pretty easy.
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