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Localizing In Xcode

Let me say this again in slow motion: NEVER type in ANY English string without typing NSLocalizedString() around it! This will save you SO MUCH HASSLE later on when your app is popular. Remember that...

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Hardwired Strings

With every programming language/development environment I know of, you have to do extra work to make a string localizable. For example, errorMessage = NSLocalizedString(@"This is hard!",@""); not...

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Simple English

There are 400 million native English speakers, but over a billion people who speak English as a second language. … At any given instant on this planet, most people who are speaking English are not...

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The Perils of Localization

The sign below is supposed to say ‘No entry for heavy goods vehicles. Residential site only’ in English and Welsh. Unfortunately the Welsh version says ‘I am not in the office at the moment. Send any...

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