How can I localise my multiple string in swift?

Question

When I do as below, I can write all string expressions in different languages. But it doesn't happen when I make a multi line String. Please help me on how to Integrate this?

Modal

Unit(unit: "Unit 1".localized(),
             category: [Category(category: "Personal Pronouns".localized()])

controller

extension String {
    func localized() -> String {
        return NSLocalizedString(self,
                                 tableName: "Localizable",
                                 bundle: .main,
                                 value: self,
                                 comment: self)
    }      
}

localizable.string

"Unit 1" = "Unité 1";
"Personal Pronouns" = "Pronoms personnel";

The multi line string I want to do will be like this but how ?

let text = """
    We want to change the World
    but not everywhere or everything
    only on people 
        """

https://github.com/ysrtirak/Make-localise here there is my example

I could not translate the text in """ """

Duncan C · Accepted Answer · 2021-08-15T20:57:20.610

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I haven't tried it, but according to this SO answer you can put multi-line strings directly into your localizable.strings file:

localizable.strings:

"multiLine" = "We want to change the World
but not everywhere or everything
only on people";

And in your swift code:

print("multiLine".localized())

I just tried a test application, and the following localizable.strings file worked perfectly:

/* 
  Localizable.strings
  MultiLine

  Created by Duncan Champney on 8/13/21.
  
*/
"foo" = "This
is
a
multi-line
string";

With that localizable.strings file, this code:

        print(NSLocalizedString("foo", value: "foo", comment: "comment"))

prints the output:

This
is
a
multi-line
string

Just as you would expect it to.

Edit:

Try downloading this sample app from Github. It is a working example of using multi-line strings in a localizable.strings file.

Edit #2:

You have an extra newline at the beginning and end of the English in your French localizable.strings. Change it as follows:

/* 
  Localizable.strings
  Make localise

  Created by Yasir Tırak on 15.08.2021.
  
*/

"I know how to localise that . thats not problem" = "Je sais comment localiser ça. ce n'est pas un problème";
"This is my text
But i cant localise it
hey
how are you" = "C'est mon texte
Mais je ne peux pas le localiser
Hé
Comment ça va";

That works.

To figure out what was going on, I broke your code into steps and logged the results:

 let text = """
 This is my text
 But i cant localise it
 hey
 how are you
 """
 print("text = '\(text)'")
 let localizedText = text.localized()
 textLabel.text = localizedText

That outputs:

text = 'This is my text
But i cant localise it
hey
how are you'

Note how there are no newlines before the first single quote and none after the last single quote.

edited Aug 15 '21 at 20:57

answered Aug 14 '21 at 00:15

Duncan C

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No, I tried this, but Objective-c does not accept a multi-line text in this way, it gives an error. Even swift code does not accept multi-line for plain string expression in this way, it is necessary to put 3 quotation marks. – Yasir TIRAK Aug 14 '21 at 00:23
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The strings file is not Objective-C. It's a very specific C-like syntax. – Duncan C Aug 14 '21 at 00:26
Yes, I understand, but the system definitely does not accept this. I tried and your solution is not working. – Yasir TIRAK Aug 14 '21 at 00:39
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I just tested it with the localizable.strings file I added to my answer and it most definitely works. – Duncan C Aug 14 '21 at 00:40
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See the edit to my answer. I just posted a link to a working project on Github that uses a multi-line localizable.strings file. – Duncan C Aug 14 '21 at 00:55
no you understood wrong sir, normally I have modal to put tableView for every section, Already I have multiple line texts with """text""" but when I want to localise it is not working because my string value is not "text" , it is already """text""" – Yasir TIRAK Aug 15 '21 at 10:58
Upload an example project with this problem to to github and add a link to it in your question. – Duncan C Aug 15 '21 at 14:35
I am able to include multi-line localized strings in a project's localizable.strings file. I'm not sure what you mean when you say that your string is "already """text"""." You can enclose a multi-line string literal in 3 pairs of double quotes, but it sounds like you might be mis-using that. Post a minimal project that shows this error and then we can help you sort it out. – Duncan C Aug 15 '21 at 17:05
I added an example please check it and give your idea. – Yasir TIRAK Aug 15 '21 at 18:40

How can I localise my multiple string in swift?

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