How to check the iPhone language settings?

Question

I'm localizing my app which is cocos2d so there are no nib files, I'm localizing a label which is fine but want to check the device language to set an exact font and font size for each language. In short I want to do it as the following:

If (device.language == en) {
Set font to "fontname" and "fontsize" to x;
} else {
set it to "another font name" and font size to y;
}

How to check that the device language/settings is set to an exact language?

duplicate question: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3910244/getting-current-device-language-in-ios — Maciej Trybiło, Jun 05 '12 at 14:14

score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 05 '12 at 14:16

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You can use:

[[NSLocale preferredLanguages] objectAtIndex:0]

This will return a language tag like “en” or “ja”.

answered Jun 05 '12 at 14:16

adambinsz

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Thanks a lot, exactly what I wanted – XIII Jun 05 '12 at 14:28
This is not true, in Apple documentation there is a note about that method: `// note that this list does not indicate what language the app is actually running in; the [NSBundle mainBundle] object determines that at launch and knows that information` – Bartłomiej Semańczyk Jan 10 '16 at 14:59

How to check the iPhone language settings?

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