I have made an ios app that is localized to two languages (english and danish, english being default).
I have made a Localizable.strings with two subfiles, en and da.
Everything should be made correctly, and i see the english texts load fine from the strings file. But the danish ones do not.
I have tried to check the preferred language via below code and it is danish.
[[NSLocale preferredLanguages] objectAtIndex:0];
I have tried clean + delete and rebuild with no luck.
I know that the Localizable.strings file is working since it is getting the english texts. and i know that it is seeing the danish localization via the above line of code.
What am i missing?
Just to add a couple of examples:
from the EN:
"YesButton" = "Done";
"NoButton" = "Not yet!";
"NextButton" = "Next";
"BackButton" = "Back";
"EditButton" = "Edit";
"DoneButton" = "Done";
and the DANISH:
"YesButton" = "Færdig";
"NoButton" = "Ikke endnu!";
"NextButton" = "Næste";
"BackButton" = "Tilbage";
"EditButton" = "Redigér";
"DoneButton" = "Færdig";
and the code for getting the text would be:
[yesButton setTitle:NSLocalizedString(#"YesButton", nil) forState:UIControlStateNormal];
which is returning "Done" even when preferredLang is da (danish)!
Hope somebody has an idea? :)
Thanks in advance.
EDIT:::
Something was wrong with the actual DANISH-DENMARK localization. i dont know if apple updated it or what they did but it went from being called "Danish-Denmark" to just "Danish".
After making a whole new Danish localization and deleting the old one it worked! crazy stuff. keeps you scratching your head!
I had similar thing happened to me before. All I did to fix the problem was to change the string encoding from:
encoding:NSASCIIStringEncoding
to
encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding
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Now assume the problem is not string encoding. You can also work around it and do something like:
NSString * language = [[NSLocale preferredLanguages] objectAtIndex:0];
NSString yesButtonStr=#"";
NSString noButtonStr=#"";
NSString nextButtonStr=#"";
if([#"en" caseInsensitiveCompare:language] == NSOrderedSame )
{
yesButtonStr = #"Done";
noButtonStr= #"Not yet!";
nextButtonStr = #"Next";
//...
}
else if if([#"da" caseInsensitiveCompare:language] == NSOrderedSame )
{
yesButtonStr = #"Færdig";
noButtonStr = #"Ikke endnu!";
nextButtonStr = #"Næste";
//...
}
Then:
[yesButton setTitle:NSLocalizedString(yesButtonStr, nil) forState:UIControlStateNormal];
Try this,
NSString *translatedString = [self languageSelectedStringForKey:#"YesButton"]; // Give your key here
-(NSString*) languageSelectedStringForKey:(NSString*) key
{
NSString *path;
path = [[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:#"en" ofType:#"lproj"]; // give your language type in pathForResource, i.e. "en" for english, "da" for Danish
NSBundle* languageBundle = [NSBundle bundleWithPath:path];
NSString* str=[languageBundle localizedStringForKey:key value:#"" table:nil];
return str;
}
Hope this helps, Thanks. Happy coding
There was something wrong with the actual danish localization.
When i started making the localization it was called "Danish-Denmark". After an update of ios and/or xcode, it is now only "Danish".
So had to make a whole new localization.
Thank you apple...... NOT!
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static dispatch_once_t onceToken1;
dispatch_once(&onceToken1, ^
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self.voice = speechVoice;
break;
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}
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* EDIT **
I could not find a better solution for this problem ..
I was in a hurry to fix this so I duvuto apply this method to solve the problem with the localized images:
+ (NSString*) getLocalizedPathImageWithImageName:(NSString*) aImageName
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}
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NSUserDefaults* userDefaults = [NSUserDefaults standardUserDefaults];
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In my case I'm getting:
language: '(
"zh-Hans"
)'
locale: '(
en
)'
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Swift:
let language = NSBundle.mainBundle().preferredLocalizations[0] as NSString
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print(languageCode)
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Getting the Current Language
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Swift:
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