I've localized my application in several languages and they all work fine except, I don't know how to test in Chinese. I have made all my .xib files zh for Chinese Simplified but don't know where Chinese is on the iPhone Language settings. I can't tell the difference between Chinese, Korean, Japanese or any other similar far eastern languages therefore, I can't set my simulator or iPhone accordingly to test it. Is there someone who can guide me to the appropriate language setting on the iPhone please?
If you are asking which is which:
繁體中文 - Chinese (Traditional)
简体中文 - Chinese (Simplified)
日本語 - Japanese
한국어 - Korean
iPhone apps already use UTF-8 by default which is a multi-byte character encoding for UNICODE.
See a nice explanation of this type of encoding here.
To Eric.
"한국의 - Korean ", It is wrong.
한국'어' is right, not 한국'의'.
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I am having a strange bug where in iOS is picking up the second preferred language on the phone as the main language and showing the strings in that language. I use react-native and it started to happen after I upgraded to 0.64.0. For example, in the below screenshot, the month strings are shown in Hindi. Hindi is the second preferred language on the phone.
The Cancel and Select buttons are added by JS side code which appears fine in English language. After I removed Hindi as the second preferred language leaving only English as the phone language, the month string started to appear in Spanish.
I am not sure what is triggering it and how to fix this problem. Any kind of help is much appreciated. I provide Hindi and Spanish translations for the app and have InfoPlist.strings file present for Hindi and Spanish in the app. If I remove those string files, then the strings are shown in English as expected.
Please note that the problem is not limited to the date picker. It is for any of the dialogs shown by iOS. For example, if I select any text, the copy label appears in Spanish. I have attached some other screenshots where the problem can be seen.
Open the Settings app.
Navigate to a--name > Preferred Language > Language.
Change the preferred language to Spanish.
also try setting the preferred language to just English and forget the Hindi and let us know what happens. also good chance this might fix you up:https://github.com/formatjs/formatjs
Following Ray Wenderlich tutorial (https://www.raywenderlich.com/180356/ios-internationalization), the Localizable.strings is as following. Notice there is no Localizable.strings(Base)
But in some other tutorials, they would use Base instead of English, so did I in my project as follow.
My iPhone's preferred language order is English then Chinese and is currently set to English. But whenever I run the app, it goes to Chinese except when I explicitly edit scheme to ask Xcode to run it in English. Does that mean I should have Localizable.strings (English) instead of Localizable.strings (Base)?
Another question, I have Main.storyboard (Base) and Main.strings (Chinese (Simplified)) under Main.storyboard. But no matter what I do, the storyboard always shows up in Chinese version. What have I done wrong?
=== Update ===
I played around with it (simply remove and recreate, nothing changed), and then magically the localization works as expected: The app default to English, which is my system language, and switches to Chinese when I edit scheme. However, now my storyboard is stuck with (Base) version no matter what I do.
I am no expert on this, but as I understand the Base file is a fallback if your app doesn't have a Localizable.strings file for the user's device language.
So if you have English and Chinese as localization files, but your preferred languages are German and Japanese, the system will check the Base file for strings.
In your case you have Chinese and the base files. English is not found, so it takes the other preferred language (Chinese). Therefore the base strings are not used -- the app defaults to the Chinese localization.
To solve the problem, you need to make an English strings file in addition to your base strings.
I have an application that must support two languages: english and french.
English is the Development Language and I also added French.
I have three children below the Main.storyboard: Main.storyboard(Base), Main.storyboard(English) and Main.storyboard(French). Unfortunately the Main.storyboard(Base) has the texts in french and my English file is ignored.
How can I fix this? I struggle already for 2 hours. When I run the application all the texts are in french tough the device language is english.
I tried to change all the strings in the base storyboard to be in english but after that some of the french texts from Main.storyboard(french) are ignored. It driving me nuts.
I have build an iphone app and I started with Dutch texts in the app. I would like to expand it to other countries so I Localized the app and added English.
So I have now to localization folders en.lproj and nl.lproj.
When I install the app on the iphone and set the language to Dutch I get the Dutch language in the App. When I switch to English I get this. But when I switch to German I get the Dutch language. I would like to have default the English language when the is no localization folder for it.
How do I do this?
A little late to the party, but just recently run into this issue and somebody helped me, so here is the magic:
Suppose your app supports English and Spanish.
If the list of languages in the Settings app is Portuguese, Spanish, English then Spanish will be shown to the user. If the list has been Portuguese, English, Spanish then English would be shown to the user.
In short, the language are loaded in order, so if you want English to be loaded when German (or any other missing language) is set, your settings screen should read:
German | English | Dutch | everything else
But you don't know how your users has the languages set and English might be at the bottom. So far, the best solution workaround I found was to manually change the Locale order on startup so English is always second, and therefore, default.
In your Info.plist you have to set the Localization native development region to English (en) and it should work fine.
I deployed marmalade s3eKeyboard sample to iOS with Chinese language. The keyboard pops up when s3eKeyboardSetInt with S3E_KEYBOARD_GET_CHAR, but there is no Chinese character output whatever I input with Chinese input method. There is character output only in English or Number input method. The document says iphone-bundle-localisations should be set, but it make no different when set to 'zh' in deployments of MKB file.
Anyone had such problem or I missed something? Thank you.