On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 4:37 AM, Satyanarayana Chebrolu
<Satyanarayanac@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
> currently my application supports only English. In the future versions we
> would like to have it in around 15 languages.
>
> What is the best practice for having localized nibs.
>
> 1) Common approach, different nibs for different languages.
> Â+ve, straight forward.
> Â-ve, Time consuming and maintenance effort.
> 2) By using Auto layout feature.
> Â+ve, available only in Lion
> Â-ve, not in Leopard and Snow Leopard

Some things that could be useful to make your decision:

- "When in Rome, do as the Romans do": check what Apple does. As far
as I know, they are still localizing with multiple nibs.

- Check what the guys who will localize the software would rather use.
The localization solutions based on just localizing the strings have
some side issues:

- you absolutely need to provide context information for all the strings.

- you generally end up with duplicates in your .strings files (e.g. DL2).

- it's more difficult to adjust the layout for specific
localization requirements.

- you absolutely need to provide a working binary, otherwise it's
not possible to do any kind of check.

- With .strings only localization, you're adding code to handle
something that can be done without additional code.

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