Right - honestly its just a few people here and there who ask for it for business reasons. If there was an easy way - such as NSUserDefault we could set that would tell the OS - use our English NIBs and strings - that's what we'd be looking for. Without that, its just not worth it.
On Mac OS X you can set the language of an app separately in Get Info (I think...) - but you can't on iOS. On Jul 31, 2010, at 8:20 PM, John Joyce wrote: > Hi Alex, > In this case, are they requiring the OS language be in English? > If the OS is in French, or another language, it is still possible to change > your app's UI labels to any string you desire. > It is a bit more work for you to implement. > However, OS supplied services, such as copy/paste will still have the locale > strings of the OS is set to. > > Hope that helps, > John Joyce > On Jul 31, 2010, at 6:26 PM, Alex Kac wrote: > >> Well there are a couple reasons on the iPhone in our case. First, some users >> have devices that are set to languages like French or German, but they want >> to run the app in English. Why? I'm told it has to do with some business >> preferences or something. On iPhone its all or nothing. >> >> So at least for me - I'm interested in some way to let the user pick >> languages separate from the system. >> >> On Jul 31, 2010, at 4:12 PM, Kyle Sluder wrote: >> >>> On Jul 31, 2010, at 1:15 PM, cocoa learner <cocoa.lear...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> True. That can be done. But I am looking for standard way of doing instead >>>> of creating a Dictionary from the strings file. And at the same time I >>>> would >>>> like to change keyboard input (from English to French based on the option >>>> chosen from my App radio button). >>> >>> The system already provides a mechanism for choosing between input methods >>> and keyboard layouts. Why do you want to supplant this? >>> >>> --Kyle Sluder_______________________________________________ >>> >>> 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: >>> http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/alex%40webis.net >>> >>> This email sent to a...@webis.net >> >> Alex Kac - President and Founder >> Web Information Solutions, Inc. >> >> "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and >> the pessimist fears this is true." >> -- James Clabell >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> 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: >> http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/jjoyce%40apple.com >> >> This email sent to jjo...@apple.com > Alex Kac - President and Founder Web Information Solutions, Inc. "It is useless for sheep to pass a resolution in favor of vegetarianism while wolves remain of a different opinion." -- William Randolph Inge _______________________________________________ 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: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
