Re: International Languages List?
Re: International Languages List?
- Subject: Re: International Languages List?
- From: mmalcolm crawford <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 10:32:47 -0700
On Apr 22, 2004, at 9:54 AM, Steve Sheets wrote:
When Localizing our application from English to various other
countries, it would be really helpful to have a list of the Language
the Macintosh supports, both the name that appears in the
International System Preference, as well as the name the nib files and
text files need to be localized to.
For example, for a Spanish localization, a folder in the bundle is
created with the Spanish.lproj name. Project builder shows the nib
files with a Spanish version. However, the International System
Preference, you set Languages to "Espaqol" (Spanish world for
Spanish).
For me, the problem is the lesser common European languages, and the
Asian languages, which seem to have no connection between the name in
the System Preference and the name of the nib folders. Being barely
literate in English, it gets difficult for languages I do no know (ex.
Nederlands is Dutch, Dansk is Danish)!
lproj names such as "English" and "Spanish" are supported for backwards
compatibility. You should instead use a "two-letter language
abbreviation conforming to the ISO 639-1 standard (for example, en)"
-- see
<
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/MacOSX/Conceptual/
BPInternational/Concepts/LanguageDesignations.html> -- for language
names, and append a region designator as and when appropriate. I hope
this will address the main issue.
mmalc
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