I’m developing an Android app in Eclipse with Android-2.1 as the “minimum”.
The app works perfectly in default language (English). I decided to add multi localization, and the problem starts there.
I’ve created the strings.xml exactly like the english one (copy&paste) and then edited the new one replacing the english sentences with the new language sentences, putting it on the respective values folder (eg. values-de or values-de-DE (tried both) for Deutsch).
I’ve done this for multiple languages (Portuguese, Deutsch, French, Simplified Chinese).
The app itself changes a couple of textviews to some number values after pressing a button.
In English, Portuguese and Simplified Chinese, works like a charm.
In Deutsch and French, half the code inside the onClick isn’t “read”, but the debugger doesn’t complain any errors.
If it’s working in some languages, i think the problem probably has to do with something related to the localization configuration, but after googling i’ve found multiple tutorials doing exactly the same as i did.
Any ideas?
(Sorry for the long text and title, but i am having dificulties explaining the problem)
Eventually figured out.
It has to do with decimal values.
In USA/UK you use “.” to refer as a decimal point.
In Germany/France you use “,” to refer as a decimal point.
So the app simply couldn’t comply with the values stated because of the differences in math representation.