1. Cocoa App Localisation
Alan Harper
@aussiegeek
App Fission

2. Once upon a time
• everyone spoke English
App Fission

3. Parlez-vous français?
• Obviously, we have a problem
App Fission

4. It’s just a preference
NSUserDefaults *defaults = [NSUserDefaults standardUserDefaults];
NSArray *userLanguages = [defaults objectForKey:@"AppleLanguages"];
NSString *preferredLanguage = [userLanguages objectAtIndex:0];
// Result is @"en"
App Fission

5. Let’s go
• Create a new ‘InfoPlist.strings’ strings file
• Get info, make localizable
App Fission

6. App Name
CFBundleDisplayName = "Allergènes";
App Fission

7. Je parle français
App Fission

8. Other strings
NSString *title = [[[NSBundle mainBundle]
localizedInfoDictionary]
objectForKey:@"CFBundleDisplayName"];
self.navigationItem.title = title;
App Fission

9. Xib localisation
• Yes its possible
• Some of us are just too classy for xibs
App Fission

10. Links
• Apple Internaionalisation guide:
http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/
documentation/MacOSX/Conceptual/
BPInternational/BPInternational.html
App Fission