localizedStringForKey:value:table ignores Base localization

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My application need to be localised in 2 languages: German and English. German should be Base language. It means that app should always localize to German except the language on device is english (in this case it should be on english)

I have custom *.string files for localisation and use localizedStringForKey:value:table to localise strings.

When I have only base localisation everything works fine. But in case if I add english localisation, in some reason localizedStringForKey:value:table just ignore Base localisation and always use English (for all languages)

Here how it looks like after I've added english: enter image description here

and here is how I localise strings:

[[NSBundle mainBundle] localizedStringForKey:@"key" value:@"" table:@"Shared"]

I'm testing on simulator and here is my language screen: enter image description here

Does anybody know what could be a problem? Thanks in advance!

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ioslocalization
What language is the device (or simulator) that you are testing on set to? Can you also include a screen shot of the language screen - the ordering on that screen is important :) - Rich
Also in your Info.plist, what is your Localization native development region (CFBundleDevelopmentRegion) set to? - Rich
@Rich, I'm testing on simulator with German language. I also tried another languages but I always see english inside the app (not german witch is in Base localization). included screen above :) In Info.plist Localization native development region is also German. - Nastya Gorban
Oh :( That's not what I was hoping for. I have just noticed that German in the Info.plist is de_DE, any luck if you manually set this just to de, maybe the region is causing an issue. - Rich
@Rich setting "de" fixed the problem :) Thanks a lot! - Nastya Gorban

2 Answers

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As I mentioned in the comments, you need to set the Localization native development region (CFBundleDevelopmentRegion) in the Info.plist to your language code. Xcode seems to set it to a en_GB or de_DE style region code, setting it to de (no region) will fix it. Note that by default it is en, but selecting United Kingdom or Germany will change it to use the longer codes.

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I have another solution, I think it works for you:

NSString* NSCustomLocalizedString( NSString *key , NSString *comment)
{
NSString *rs = nil;

if( [[NSUserDefaults standardUserDefaults] integerForKey:KEY_LANGUAGE ] == e_language_japanese)
{
rs = NSLocalizedStringFromTable(key,@"Localizable.strings-ja",nil);
}
else
{
rs = NSLocalizedStringFromTable(key,@"Localizable.strings-en",nil);
}
return rs;
}