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NSLocale countryCode is 419
Hello, Upon registration to be able to localise the App for the users I am requesting the countryCode: (Locale.current as NSLocale).object(forKey: NSLocale.Key.countryCode) as? String Most of the values are the one expected ("US", "GB", "DE", ...), however in some cases I have numeric country codes like "419" or "241". I wanted to know if this was expected and how I can make them fallback to the regular country code that are none numeric. Thank you
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Jul ’23
Punctuation missing from system font when Chinese language is selected
Dear experts, I get glyphs from the system font using CTFontGetGlyphsForCharacters, something like this: UIFont* uifont = [UIFont monospacedDigitSystemFontOfSize: s weight: w]; CTFontRef font = (__bridge CTFontRef)uifont; CTFontGetGlyphsForCharacters(font, ....); The characters that I ask for are basically latin-1 plus a few others. The app is not localised for Chinese. When I change the phone's default language to Chinese, this code gets glyphs for most characters OK but it fails for a few punctuation symbols: 91 = [ 93 = ] 183 = middle dot 8220 = left double curly quote 8221 = right double curly quote Can anyone guess what's going on here? What's special about those characters? Thanks, Phil.
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Sep ’23
Accessibility Kit caused carsh
*** Crash Message: -[UIWindow _accessibilityFindSubviewDescendant:]: unrecognized selector sent to instance 0x13118ca70 *** we collected more than 10K+ reports with same call stack, the almost form Accessibility Kit. but no idea how to fix it and no reason why. could take some help please 4. CoreFoundation 0x00000001d0735900 _CF_forwarding_prep_0 + 96 5 AccessibilitySettingsLoader 0x000000025a97608c 70360165-7515-35AD-9723-C4719EB48D13 + 102540 6 AccessibilityUtilities 0x00000001d9bfa720 AXPerformSafeBlockWithErrorHandler + 112 7 AccessibilityUtilities 0x00000001d9bfb258 AXPerformSafeBlock + 56 8 AccessibilitySettingsLoader 0x000000025a976014 70360165-7515-35AD-9723-C4719EB48D13 + 102420 9 AccessibilitySettingsLoader 0x000000025a975ed8 70360165-7515-35AD-9723-C4719EB48D13 + 102104 10 AccessibilitySettingsLoader 0x000000025a97720c 70360165-7515-35AD-9723-C4719EB48D13 + 107020 11 AccessibilityUtilities 0x00000001d9c7be40 265BEA5E-C36A-3E51-A119-A3FD42F3DB5C + 552512 12 AXCoreUtilities 0x00000001db850530 AXPerformBlockSynchronouslyOnMainThread + 72 13 AXCoreUtilities 0x00000001db84faa0 774B92BE-E295-3FDC-99A4-5EFB55BA70C5 + 6816 14 AccessibilityUtilities 0x00000001d9c7b8d0 265BEA5E-C36A-3E51-A119-A3FD42F3DB5C + 551120 15 AccessibilitySettingsLoader 0x000000025a976ed4 70360165-7515-35AD-9723-C4719EB48D13 + 106196 16 AccessibilityUtilities 0x00000001d9c74178 265BEA5E-C36A-3E51-A119-A3FD42F3DB5C + 520568 17 AccessibilityUtilities 0x00000001d9bfff54 265BEA5E-C36A-3E51-A119-A3FD42F3DB5C + 44884 18 AccessibilityUtilities 0x00000001d9bfca28 265BEA5E-C36A-3E51-A119-A3FD42F3DB5C + 31272 19 libdispatch.dylib 0x00000001d7b7feac 5D16936B-4E4C-3276-BA7A-69C9BC760ABA + 16044
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Sep ’23
Call directory extension name not localised in settings iOS 15.3
I have two call directory extensions, each with InfoPlist.strings in en.lproj and nb.lproj directories. In these files I've defined CFBundleDisplayName for both locales. These names are displayed under Settings -> Phone -> Call Blocking & Identification. On iOS 12.2 the names are displayed correctly in both Norwegian and English. Testing on iOS 15.3 the English names are displayed even when device language is set to Norwegian. Worth noting: When updating the English versions of CFBundleDisplayName this is immediately reflected in Call Blocking & Identification page with Norwegian device language. As this feature requires a real device, I'm unable to test on iOS 13 and 14.
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Feb ’22
AppShortcuts.strings ${applicationName} should not be mandatory on the localizable key : Invalid Utterance. Every App Shortcut utterance should have one '${applicationName}' in it.
Xcode 15 beta 6 : Xcode is looking for "${applicationName}" in the strings file keys instead of the value only. (it was working on Xcode 14) error : Invalid Utterance. Every App Shortcut utterance should have one '${applicationName}' in it.
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Aug ’23
String Catalog does not work with deployed App
I migrated to String Catalog in my app. That worked fine, and everything is OK in the Simulator and even on a real device. However, After I deployed the App and it became available in the AppStore, I started receiving Feedback from some users. Seems my app is no longer doing localization. It always presents itself in its development language. Has anyone else experienced this?
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Jul ’23
App is terminated when user changes language
Dear Experts, NSLocale has a notification NSCurrentLocaleDidChangeNotification and a property autoupdatingCurrentLocale ("A locale which tracks the user’s current preferences"). These suggest that an app should be able to detect when the user changes their language preference while running, or when it is resumed from the background. In practice, when I change language in the Settings app (either globally or just for my app), the app is terminated by iOS and restarts with new locale. Is this the expected behaviour? I am wondering if there is something I need to do to advertise that the app can adopt language changes without restarting, or something. Maybe only date-time formats, etc., trigger the notification but language changes don't?
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Jul ’23