Comments on: How to translate and localize iOS app with string catalogs in Xcode 15

By: Robert Holzapfel

Robert Holzapfel — Mon, 05 Aug 2024 14:01:36 +0000

I love very much working with the new feature ‘string catalogs’, but I recently run into a problem: How to use them in combination with a (local) package dependency, where the code contains strings of type String(localized: “MyString”) ?

By: Jackson

Jackson — Mon, 10 Jun 2024 14:33:12 +0000

Awesome article 🙂 Thanks .. helped a lot

By: alanrick

alanrick — Sun, 11 Feb 2024 08:02:37 +0000

Very useful blog Karin. I wish I could figure how to toggle the Xcode string catalogue display between the comfortable rendering and the plain text rendering (e.g. “\nPoints: %@\n\n” : {
“comment” : “for text buffer”,
“localizations” : {
“de” : { )
…..
Sometimes Xcode shows one, sometimes the other. It seems random.

By: James Scott

James Scott — Sat, 18 Nov 2023 18:44:32 +0000

Great article. I have translated multiple languages very quickly now. My question is: Why does my project – info – page show all the languages as “0 Files Localized”? After all the translations have been done and I have green check marks next to each of them and testing each language on my actual device works perfectly. I have been raking my brain over this and cannot find a solution before I submit to app store.
Thanks in advance

By: karin.prater@gmx.de

karin.prater@gmx.de — Thu, 09 Nov 2023 09:22:08 +0000

In reply to Sandor. You can use the environment to change the language:

Tex("Translate this")
.environment(\.locale, Locale(identifier: "ENG"))
Tex("Translate this")
.environment(\.locale, Locale(identifier: "DE"))

The first text would be in English and the second in German. Keep in mind that it will only translate if you have an exact match in the string catalog

By: Sandor

Sandor — Tue, 07 Nov 2023 10:09:06 +0000

Hi, great article and very helpful but I have a question. What if I want to use a specific language e.g. “What the user sets in the app” and I want the translation for that specific language from the string catalog?