CODEWITHSUNDEEP
iphoneios5localization
user1349588
user1349588

Reputation: 1

Cannot load country-specific resource

I am loading text resources in different languages from text files using:

NSString *filePath = [[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:@"myfile" ofType:@"txt"];

if(filePath) {

    NSString *myText = [[NSString alloc] initWithContentsOfFile:filePath encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding error:nil];

}

Works very well with my language specific resources in English, German etc.

But I do also have some country-specific resources, like an English text for United Kingdom, an English text for USA, a German text for Austria etc.

I would expect these resources to be loaded if the phone is set to the specific country (Region Format), but they don't. The filepath will always be set to the file in the "pure" language folder.

So for example I have myfile.txt in the folders:

en.lproj
en-GB.lproj
en-US.lproj

but it always loads the one in en.lproj

Folders have been created using the localization function in Xcode and are all located in the same folder.

What is a bit odd is that these folders created by Xcode do seperate language and country by a hyphen, but according to the documentation it should be an underscore. I have tried to copy folders (with underscores) into the project manually, but it still doesn't work.

How do I manage to load the country-specific files?

Thanks.....

Upvotes: 0

Views: 666

Answers (3)

jalopezsuarez
jalopezsuarez

Reputation: 434

I have the same problem with nl-NL.lproj (Netherland) and ca-ES.lproj (Catalan). The solution for me is add the language using Xcode. Go to Xcode Project, and then in Info Tab add the langugages. Automatically will create the folders nl-NL.lproj and ca-ES.lproj.

Then you can try this on Simulator (Xcode version 4.6) and these languages don't word, instead will load English language.

First rename manually the folder nl-NL.lproj to nl.lproj. Finally go to file {MY_PROJECT}.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj and replace the PATH of the following lines:

    C3D2888817108DDA00CE8AC2 /* nl-NL */ = {isa = PBXFileReference; lastKnownFileType = text.plist.strings; name = "nl-NL"; path = "nl.lproj/Localizable.strings"; sourceTree = "<group>"; };
    C3D2888917108DE500CE8AC2 /* nl-NL */ = {isa = PBXFileReference; lastKnownFileType = text.plist.strings; name = "nl-NL"; path = "nl.lproj/InfoPlist.strings"; sourceTree = "<group>"; };

That's all, now I can get these languages settings correctly.

Upvotes: 0

BdR
BdR

Reputation: 3058

I created a "dutch-netherlands" translation of Localisations.string and set iPhone language to dutch, but NSLocalizedString always returned the English translation. The solution was to create a "dutch" translation (nl.lproj) instead of "dutch-netherlands" (nl-NL.lproj).

In the settings screen of iOS4 or iOS5, you can select Dutch language but there's no subselection for Dutch-Netherlands or Dutch-Belgium, even though these are available in XCode. It seems to me that XCode offers more translation options than that are actually supported by iOS.

I mean there's no way to make your app use "nl-NL" resources. I guess the same problem goes for German and Austria ("de-DE" and "de-AT").

Upvotes: 3

Clafou
Clafou

Reputation: 15400

Note: Your code sample is a complicated way of loading text resources. It's fine if you are loading non-string resources such as images or media files, but for simple strings it's much easier to just use one .strings file per language (containing multiple localized strings) and call NSLocalizedString to get the relevant language version of a given string.

Answer: The iOS setting under "Region Format" does not affect resource loading. Instead it controls how the system performs locale-dependent functionality (such as date/number formatting and parsing). The iOS setting that controls which language version of your localized resources gets loaded is the Language setting (General > International > Language). Currently, it includes only two English variants: "English" and "British English".

Upvotes: 0

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