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Paul Li Zhang
Paul Li Zhang

Reputation: 11

wp8 app store localization for app name

anyone know how to create localized app name in windows phone app store? in the app, it's all perfect, the app reads the name from the localized .dll file, i just followed the msdn article to create language resources: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsphone/develop/ff637522(v=vs.105).aspx

and the following is my app setting in store and MS2012 http://pic.twitter.com/6myhmSe77L

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1110

Answers (2)

Alex Sorokoletov
Alex Sorokoletov

Reputation: 3101

We use this helper to generate AppResLib.dll with localized titles.

It makes app title localization much easier and faster.

There is one more tool to do that: http://patrickgetzmann.wordpress.com/wp7-localize/

Upvotes: 0

kutschenator
kutschenator

Reputation: 922

For those who are wondering: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsphone/develop/ff967550(v=vs.105).aspx shows you how to localize the app title. So if you create a DLL for your App it will show a localized title on the phone.

Example: My default language is english but i localize my german title using the AppResLib.dll.0407.mui file. It all works as intended, and my german phone shows the german title. Problem: If you upload the app to the Windows Phone Store, it extracts the localized title from the manifest and xap-file.

And here's the catch: Your WMAppManifest.xml can only specify the exact supported language. For my app, the store would extract the default english title for my german meta data since i specified de as the language code. The above document states de-DE as the language for german. So make sure your manifest does not contain the generic language code (in your case you probably specified zh) but one that is actually listed.

Upvotes: 4

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