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Simon
Simon

Reputation: 25983

How do I get the language that an iphone's user is currently seeing in my app?

I can get the user's language preferences by looking at [NSLocale preferredLanguages]. But if I offer 'en' and 'fr' translations, and the user's preferences are 'en-GB', 'de', 'fr', 'en' will they see my 'en' or my 'fr' translation? How do I get the language that the user is currently seeing in my app?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 108

Answers (3)

Alastair Stuart
Alastair Stuart

Reputation: 4185

If you want to see which of your localizations is being used, store a string in your strings file describing it ("en", "fr" or whatever) and then load it with NSLocalizedString.

Upvotes: 3

Franci Penov
Franci Penov

Reputation: 76001

Multiple people claim the right way to do this would be:

NSArray *languages = [NSLocale preferredLanguages];
NSString *currentLanguage = [languages objectAtIndex:0];

Use at your own risk, though. NSLocale docs don't mention anything about first element being the current one.

Upvotes: 0

anderly
anderly

Reputation: 727

NSUserDefaults *defaults = [NSUserDefaults standardUserDefaults];
NSArray *languages = [defaults objectForKey:@"AppleLanguages"];
NSString *currentLanguage = [languages objectAtIndex:0];

Upvotes: 0

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