Question

I have an application that is supposed to be localized (two languages, english being the default).

However, I seem to only get the English versions of all strings, regardless of what the system default language is. I am probably missing something trivial, but I’ve read several tutorials now without any solution.

I added this line to main(),

NSLog(@"Current locale is: %@", [[NSLocale currentLocale] localeIdentifier]);

and the resulting printout is en_US, while the system was set to use the localized language.

I checked the build output, and the app bundle contains the XX.lproj folders as I believe they should (and they are UTF-16, I confirmed this).

What am I missing?

EDIT: It seems that my localization is working when I deploy the application through iTunes via a distribution certificate, but not when using XCode (Command-R or similar). Does anyone know what I am missing from my Debug configuration settings?

Answer 1

I’m going to answer my own question and hopefully help others. My problem was solved by simply removing my application from the phone and reinstalling it from scratch. I had to do a complete remove (including all data), not just a clean+rebuild from Xcode.

I guess that the iPhone caches the available localizations somewhere…