iOS should be localized in Bavarian

Originator:futuretap
Number:rdar://22940957 Date Originated:01-Oct-2015 11:44 PM
Status:Open Resolved:
Product:iOS SDK Product Version:9.0
Classification:Feature (New) Reproducible:Not Applicable
 
Now that iOS is localized into Colognian, the fact that Bavarian is still missing seems like a glaring omission!

Especially considering there are 14 million Bavarian speakers compared to only 250,000 Colognian speakers. (Numbers from Wikipedia)

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Apple response

We do not localize to Colognian. There is a feature called language fallback in the iOS which means that when you enter a language and region, the system tries to pick that set as the active system language. However, if it can’t, then the system falls back to the closest relative language it has available (de_DE) - so you’re seeing German in the UI, not Colognian.

However the Colognian system is active, such that if a developer decided to differentiate between Colognian and Bavarian, you’d see that in the UI if those strings are available. If not, then it would fall back to German, and if those aren’t there and the user hasn’t set anything else up for fallback, then it would fallback to English.

By futuretap at Oct. 30, 2015, 10 a.m. (reply...)

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