Does my Base Internationalization storyboard have to correspond to a fallback language for all unlocalized languages and strings?

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I've looked through some internationalization documentation and videos on apple developer, but I never found an explicit answer to that question. In Apple's tutorials I see the `Base.lproj` folder alongside `en.lproj` and `zh.lproj` -- the example translation (localization) is from English to Chinese. But they tell me that there's a file `en.lproj/myStoryboard.strings`, and that is confusing. I can't see the point in creating an English localization for the storyboard (that is already in English). - So my questions are if the user will ever see the strings in the `Base.lproj/myStoryboard.storyboard`? - Do the strings in that file have to be the default strings that are shown to the user if the system cannot find the user's preferred language folder in my bundle? - Can I explicitly say "never use `Base.lproj/myStoryboard.storyboard`, always fall back on `en.lproj/myStoryboard.strings`"? In other words: Let's say I want my app to display in English whenever the user's language isn't ava…

Accepted Answer

In my case, XCode 5 didn't create a `en.lproj/myStoryboard.strings`, there's only the original storyboard in the `Base.lproj` folder. Maybe it's an old XCode issue?

Try to remove that file and see if your app gets along with Base.lproj for default, English strings.

Your Info.plist file should have an entry `Localization native development region`, which points to the lproj folder to be used in case the required string doesn't exist in the preferred language.

I'm not sure about this, but I think you have to use `en` and UI with a `Base.lproj` would automatically fallback to `Base.lproj`.

Does that help you in any way?

Does my Base Internationalization storyboard have to correspond to a fallback language for all unlocalized languages and strings?

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