Placeholder and NSLocalizedString

Question

I'm trying to translate my application and I find it difficult to translate when there are half a placeholder. I need to locate the following code:

[textView1 insertText:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@ è il %i/%i/%i. Il giorno delle settimana è %@. La Festa è compresa nel calcolo. \n", nomeFesta, giornoFesta, meseFesta, annoFestaModificato, ggSett]];

I put in the file localizable.string (English):

"festaCompresa" = @"%@ is the %i/%i/%i. the day of the week is %@. The holidays is included in the calculation. \n";

Then I edited the piece of code:

[textView1 insertText:[NSString stringWithFormat:NSLocalizedString(@"festaCompresaW, @""), nomeFesta, giornoFesta, meseFesta, annoFestaModificato, ggSett]];

It does not work.

The screen display is not correct because the word compare: festaCompresaW — Andrea, Apr 30 '12 at 16:42
Also there is error in the file. string: Validation failed: the data couldn't be read because it has been corrupted. — Andrea, Apr 30 '12 at 16:44
this is the wrong output:NSString è il 200/22678144/1628935280. Il giorno delle settimana è (null). La Festa è compresa nel calcolo. — Andrea, Apr 30 '12 at 16:53

score 6 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 30 '12 at 18:47

Your strings file has a minor error, you've included an @ as though the string as an NSString constant - the file format uses strings in quotes:

"festaCompresa" = "%@ is the %i/%i/%i. the day of the week is %@. The holidays is included in the calculation. \n";

BTW: when creating format strings for localization you might need to use positional formats where each format specification includes the number of the argument. For example:

"festaCompresa" = "%1$@ is the %2$i/%3$i/%4$i. the day of the week is %@. The holidays is included in the calculation. \n";

This is obviously not required in the above string as the arguments are included in the order they are provided. However in some languages they might need to be in a different order and this is how it is done.

score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 30 '12 at 18:54

Did you copy-paste the code? Or did you re-typed it in? Because if you copy-pasted it the problem is there:

[textView1 insertText:[NSString stringWithFormat:NSLocalizedString(@"festaCompresaW, @""), nomeFesta, giornoFesta, meseFesta, annoFestaModificato, ggSett]];

I suppose it should be

[textView1 insertText:[NSString stringWithFormat:NSLocalizedString(@"festaCompresa", @""), nomeFesta, giornoFesta, meseFesta, annoFestaModificato, ggSett]];

So basically a " instead of W.

Also, in Localizable.strings you don't put @ in front of the quotes, so this:

"festaCompresa" = @"%@ is the %i/%i/%i. the day of the week is %@. The holidays is included in the calculation. \n";

should be this:

"festaCompresa" = "%@ is the %i/%i/%i. the day of the week is %@. The holidays is included in the calculation. \n";

Hope it helps

Placeholder and NSLocalizedString

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