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xi golom
xi golom

Reputation: 351

Supporting Both Traditional & Simplified Chinese On iOS

I am hoping to support both Traditional and Simplified Chinese in my app, but have not been able to make the app work with Language-Region pairs (such as es-AR, es-MX, es-ES).

In the Mac Dev Library's Internationalization Programming Topics, under Language and Locale Designations, I find the following:

Important: In iOS, the bundle interfaces do not take dialect or script information into account when looking for localized resources; only the language designator code is considered. Therefore if your project includes language-specific project directories with both a language and region designator, those directories are ignored. The bundle interfaces in OS X do support region designators in language-specific project directories.

link to Internationalization Programming Topics

So, I'm thinking that I can't support two versions of Chinese.

Is this correct? It seems strange that Apple wouldn't provide a mechanism for this.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1718

Answers (2)

xi golom
xi golom

Reputation: 351

If I use the following localization structure:

...project/Resources/Locales/en.lproj/Localizable.strings
...project/Resources/Locales/es-MX.lproj/Localizable.strings
...project/Resources/Locales/es-AR.lproj/Localizable.strings
...project/Resources/Locales/es-ES.lproj/Localizable.strings

and drag the Localizable.strings into my project, it will show me the regional variants as being available, but iOS will ignore them - which is what is described in the apple documentation. Setting the device to Spanish will default to English.

I need to provide a default Spanish localization:

...project/Resources/Locales/es.lproj/Localizable.strings

So, for the Chinese variants:

...project/Resources/Locales/zh-Hans-CN.lproj/Localizable.strings
...project/Resources/Locales/zh-Hant-TW.lproj/Localizable.strings

The app will not differentiate between regions.

If, however, I use the following:

...project/Resources/Locales/zh-Hans.lproj/Localizable.strings
...project/Resources/Locales/zh-Hant.lproj/Localizable.strings

The app can differentiate between Simplified and Traditional Chinese. It seems that zh-Hant and zh-Hans are treated as different languages, and not as regional variants. Appending the CN and TW to them results in them being regional variants and ignored by iOS.

Upvotes: 2

TooManyEduardos
TooManyEduardos

Reputation: 4404

I'm not sure of what you're talking about with Mac OS, but at least my apps on iOS (iPhone and iPad) are localized to both Chinese Simplified and Traditional.

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This is in the "Project" section of the app, and on the strings.

Is this what you're talking about?

Upvotes: 0

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