Internationalizing separately for Spain and Mexico

[yezaev]

I'd like to have my app load separate plists for Spain Spanish (is the adjective Iberian?) or Mexican Spanish. However it seems setting the phone's language to Spanish and then the region format to Spain has no effect. Any idea how I can do this? The language of the phone returns "es" in either configuration.

[jeff_lamarche]

This is theoretically possible, however I have found working with localization based on country and language, rather than just country to be problematic. Xib files, for example, seem to disregard the region and just grab the localization for the language.

The way to do it (in theory) is to use, for your localization name, the ISO language code in lower case letters, followed by the ISO country code in upper case.

So, in your case, a localization for Spain, would be:

es_ES.lproj

And the one for Mexico would be

es_MX.lproj

In theory, any resource that could be shared could be put in:

es.lproj

or

Spanish.lproj

Though the former is preferred.

That's all there is to it, really. But, like I said, I've found this functionality to be kinda buggy and inconsistent, though I haven't tested it since SDK 2.0 release.

[erotsppa]

is there a guide to internationalizing? Right now my app is completey in English and I'm not sure where to start with putting in languages. Thanks!

[jeff_lamarche]

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[spinyanteater]

We've just used the locale to load different data for UK and Ireland from a SQLite database and it seems to work fine - no problems during testing and no complaints so far anyway.