How to localize a plist file ?

[Nekbeth]

Hi, I'm working on localizing my App. I have successfully localize my nibs but I'm having some trouble with plist. How can you recommend me to localize them? *

*I have try to localize them the same way as nibs but it's not working.

Please let me know if you need more specific info.

Thank you

[dany_dev]

just create more than 1 plist, and load the plist of the current language (the same tecnique to localize images)

[Nekbeth]

Originally Posted by dany_dev

just create more than 1 plist, and load the plist of the current language (the same tecnique to localize images)

Thanks for your reply Dany,

I have done that, and the result is that when I build & run I get no text on my app. (it's a tableview). It seems that it's not finding any plist file after I localize them. I have checked their location in finder and found that it created two folder (en and es).

When I did the same with nib files, it also created the same folders (en and es) to store the language nibs in another location.

Could this be the problem?

Thank you

[Nekbeth]

Originally Posted by dany_dev

just create more than 1 plist, and load the plist of the current language (the same tecnique to localize images)

Danny, by creating a 1 plist, you mean file>new > plist or localize the existing plist?

How do you load the plist of the current language ?? (any link tutorials would be great!! )

Thanks

[dany_dev]

what I would do is to create 2 plist, ok?

like ita.plist and eng.plist

now i would use

NSString *plistToUse = NSLocalizedString(@"eng.plist",@"");
//now load the info from plistToUse

"Localizable.strings" (English)

"eng.plist" = "eng.plist";

"Localizable.strings" (Italian)

"eng.plist" = "ita.plist"

"Localizable.strings" (Franch)

"eng.plist" = "fra.plist"

So that will be taken the localized plist....


ps: dany

[Nekbeth]

Thanks for your help dany, so here is what I got so far.

I created the two more plist (en & it) from my original plist. Then I assume that the code

NSString *plistToUse = NSLocalizedString(@"eng.plist",@"");
//now load the info from plistToUse

is going in my main file inside viewDidLoad. But it now gives me a warning that I'm not using the plistToUse variable.


I grab my plist this way in my code:

//Data Recipes
	NSString *Path2 = [[NSBundle mainBundle] bundlePath];
	NSString *DataPath2 = [Path2 stringByAppendingPathComponent:@"RecipeData.plist"];

Should I change that piece of code for the NSLocalizeString instead ?

[Nekbeth]

Great!!! I made the following changes and it now works :

I created the 2 plist (en and it)

in my delegate (where I save my plist into a dictionary) I did this

//Data Recipes
	NSString *Path2 = [[NSBundle mainBundle] bundlePath];
	NSString *DataPath2 = [Path2 stringByAppendingPathComponent:NSLocalizedString(@"en.plist",@"")];
	
	NSDictionary *tempDict2 = [[NSDictionary alloc] initWithContentsOfFile:DataPath2];
	self.dataRecipes = tempDict2;
	[tempDict2 release];

I then created 2 localizable.strings files and typed :


// For English

"en.plist" = "en.plist";

//For Italian

"en.plist" = "it.plist";

After that It worked flawlessly, thanks a lot Dany, I owe you a big one.

[dany_dev]

the code looks good, but the file should be

// For English

"en.plist" = "en.plist";

//For Italian

"en.plist" = "it.plist";

Really strange that work, check it again.

if doesn't work with these file maybe is related to nil

NSLocalizedString(@"en.plist", nil);

[Nekbeth]

Yes, I missed that one (I typed it wrong here). There is something a bit strange going on with the simulator and device do. I have localized 1 nib to two languages, after that, I clean, rebuild and it works great in the simulator but if I test it on the iPhone device..only the Localized Strings work not the nib.

Do you know why?