As for comment headers in string files I thought that was the point
of the
comment field in
"NSString<http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Reference/
Foundation/Classes/NSString_Class/Reference/NSString.html#//
apple_ref/doc/c_ref/NSString>*NSLocalizedString(
No, the comment is only used by the tool that extracts the
NSLocalizedString() keys and builds "template" .strings files.
They're actually ignored by the app itself. The intended workflow is
AFAIK:
- create your app in English
- wrap all English strings in NSLocalizedString() calls
- Run a command line tool (genstrings?) over all your source files.
It'll generate .strings files containing the English text as keys and
values, plus any comments you specified as comments in the .strings
files
- Have your translators copy these files and localize them. The
comments are intended to provide helpful context for your (human)
translators, not for the computer. E.g. if you have a string "%d
elements" you could have a comment saying "This is part of the string
'Do you really want to delete N elements/this element?'", so your
translators know that this will be inserted as the %@ in the 'do you
really want to delete %@?' string they just translated, and has to
fit with that grammatically.
