> On Mar 12, 2015, at 5:51 PM, Charles Srstka <cocoa...@charlessoft.com> wrote: > > Here’s what I’ve found, in my anecdotal experience: > > 1. XIB files in Base.lproj will load all their English strings when the app > is run in English, even if there is no corresponding strings file in > en.lproj. This makes sense, because the XIB file is being used as a starting > point, and if there’s no custom localization, might as well just stick with > what’s in the XIB that you already loaded. > > 2. Strings files in Base.lproj will load when run in English if there’s > nothing in en.lproj… but only on Mavericks and higher. If you are targeting > Mountain Lion, be warned that if there is no Localizable.strings file in > en.lproj, the app will randomly pick one from one of the other lprojs. There > doesn’t seem to be any rhyme or reason to what language it picked, although > in my testing it seems to like Simplified Chinese a lot. Having part of the > interface randomly show up in another language can have pretty hilarious > results for your end users; I got some pretty amusing reports from my beta > testers about this issue. Thank God that got caught before it went to release. > > Anyway, long story short, I don’t recommend putting strings files in > Base.lproj. Even the 10.9+ behavior I couldn’t find any promise of anywhere > in the documentation, so who knows if even that might regress in 10.11 or > something. > > Charles
Thanks, Charles. We’re targeting OS X 10.9+ and iOS 8.0+ in our apps. Barring any strong cautions against, we may delete en.lproj and see how it goes. ---- Karl Moskowski <kmoskow...@me.com> <http://about.me/kolpanic> _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
