I am learning to localise my app to Simplified Chinese. I am following this tutorial on how to do this.
Because the tutorial is based on Obj-C, formatted strings can be written like this:
"Yesterday you sold %@ apps" = "Ayer le vendió %@ aplicaciones";
"You like?" = "~Es bueno?~";
But I am using Swift. And in Swift I don't think you can use %@
to indicate that there is something to be placed there. We have string interpolation right?
My app is kind of related to maths. And I want to display which input(s) is used to compute the result in a detailed label of a table view cell. For example
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1234.5678
From x, y <---- Here is the detailed label
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Here, From x, y
means "The result is computed from x and y". I want to translate this to Chinese:
从 x, y 得出
Before, I can just use this:
"From \(someVariable)"
with the strings file:
"From" = "从 得出";
And this is how I would use it in code
"\(NSLocalizedString("From", comment: "")) \(someVariable)"
But if this were used in the Chinese version, the final string will be like this:
"从 得出 x, y"
I mean I can put the 从
and 得出
in two different entries in the strings file. But is there a better way to do it?
You can use %@
in Swift's String(format:...)
, it can be substituted
by a Swift String
or any instance of a NSObject
subclass.
For example, if the Localizable.strings file contains the definition
"From %@, %@" = "从 %@, %@ 得出";
then
let x = 1.2
let y = 2.4
let text = String(format: NSLocalizedString("From %@, %@", comment: ""), "\(x)", "\(y)")
// Or alternatively:
let text = String(format: NSLocalizedString("From %@, %@", comment: ""), NSNumber(double: x), NSNumber(double: y))
produces "从 1.2, 2.4 得出". Another option would be to use the
%f
format for double floating point numbers:
"From %f, %f" = "从 %f, %f 得出";
with
let text = String(format: NSLocalizedString("From %f, %f", comment: ""), x, y)
See Niklas' answer for an even better solution which localizes the number representation as well.