Hi John, I am American but I've been studying Spanish for years so I run my Macs and iDevices in Spanish but everything else is American (dates, punctuation, etc.). It really sticks out (in a bad way) when an app is partially localized or, based on my language setting, makes assumptions other than I want the words to appear in Spanish (such as, I live in Spain or use Euros for currency). The apps I am working on use user preferences, standard .lproj localizations.
As for App Store and iTunes, on iOS 5.1.1 (and as long as I can remember), those apps appear on my phone in Spanish. If I switch my language to English, they will be in English. They don't change depending on where I am and I completely agree that it would be strange (and terrible) if my phone changed its language based on where I am. Just imagine flying from Paris to Moscow! Marc > Hello. > > We currently have an iOS app available in English. We have decided to > localize it into other languages, but first we wanted to look into how > other companies are doing it in order to determine what the best > practices would be. > > When we looked at how Apple localizes their apps we found something > which we think is very strange. The App Store and iTunes apps > determine their language based on the location of the user. For > example, a user in Germany will get the entire apps in German even if > the rest of the phone is configured to run in English. > > Of course the app content will differ between different countries, for > example not all apps are available in every country and so on. But we > are puzzled on why the rest of the app such as navigation buttons and > labels are localized this way. > > An obvious scenario when this breaks would be an English speaking > American moving to Germany. It is possible that he or she don't want > to learn German and therefore keep using the apps in English. > > We fail to see why this would be a good way to localize an app but > since Apple is doing it we assume that there has to be a good reason > for it. Is this something that developers should learn from and do in > their own apps? > > John _______________________________________________ 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: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
