title: Set or change the DEFAULT_LANGUAGE in Django
body: <p><strong>I want the default language of my site to be Persian, not English!
  and DEFAULT_LANGUAGE is not working for me !</strong></p>
  <p>A part of my settings.py file :</p>
  <pre><code>LANGUAGES = (
      ('fa','Persian'),
      ('en','English'),
  )
  
  DEFAULT_LANGUAGE = 1
  
  LANGUAGE_CODE = 'fa'
  
  TIME_ZONE = 'Asia/Tehran'
  
  USE_I18N = True
  
  USE_L10N = True
  
  USE_TZ = True
  </code></pre>
  <p>I also read these and they did not help:</p>
  <p><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/42953521/set-or-change-the-default-language-dynamically-according-to-the-user-django">Set or change the default language dynamically according to the user - Django</a></p>
  <p><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/42553488/django-how-to-set-the-default-language-in-the-i18n-patterns">Django how to set the default language in the i18n_patterns?</a></p>
  <p><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14562564/django-cant-change-default-language">Django: Can&#39;t change default language</a></p>
  <p><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5816033/django-default-language-i18n">Django: default language i18n</a></p>
  <p>Please help me. thanks!</p>