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Re: Localization Issue


  • Subject: Re: Localization Issue
  • From: "parag vibhute" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2008 12:06:53 +0530

Thanks for reply.

You both have mentioned terms "canonicalization" & I also have read this in
API reference but I have not understood what does this term means. Can you
please explain this?

Thanks,
Parag

On Jan 3, 2008 5:09 AM, Douglas Davidson <email@hidden> wrote:

>
> On Jan 2, 2008, at 1:46 PM, Deborah Goldsmith wrote:
>
> > There is no way to go from the newer form to the older form. You can
> > use CFLocaleCreateCanonicalLanguageIdentifierFromString to go from
> > the older forms to the preferred version (on 10.4 or later). If
> > you're running on 10.3, that API is not available.
> >
> > You can also use APIs on NSBundle/CFBundle to avoid having to do
> > this canonicalization yourself. That's the best option.
>
> Yes, this is a good illustration of why you usually don't want to use
> the AppleLanguages default directly.  You can use
> CFBundleCopyPreferredLocalizationsFromArray() and
> CFBundleCopyLocalizationsForPreferences() to do most of what you might
> want to do with the contents of this default, without having to deal
> with canonicalization issues, and you automatically get to match the
> standard CFBundle behavior.
>
> Douglas Davidson
>
>


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