Localization Explained - 360iDev Denver, August 2015

My talk from 360iDev 2015 about localization! Now featuring a few screenshots I couldn't quite find during the initial talk :)

The code is on GitHub as both a playground and a project:
https://github.com/designatednerd/LocalizationExplained

The videos are available here:
Mail Composed Character Input: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsGvDk0Od_E
Hum Broken in Japanese: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5CuuoVF5IY
Hum Fixed in Japanese: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvKP0bXIVhs

Transcript

1. Localization, Explained !"#$%&'()*+, 360iDev | Denver, CO | August 2015 by Ellen Shapiro | @designatednerd vokal.io | justhum.com | designatednerd.com
2. Internationalization, Explained !"#$%&'()*+, 360iDev | Denver, CO | August 2015 by Ellen Shapiro | @designatednerd vokal.io | justhum.com | designatednerd.com
3. 69% of apple's revenue is from outside the U.S
4. 41% of iOS users are from China and Japan
5. Languages Names Dates, Times and Time Zones Numbers and Measurements
6. Languages
7. Languages are more complicated than you realize
8. http://www.snopes.com/cokelore/tadpole.asp
9. How your app knows what language to use
11. How to tell the system what to translate
28. Language Tips!
29. Localized String Convenience Class/Struct
32. Twine
34. Don't forget to localize accessibility strings
35. Languages You Don't Understand Affect Your UI
36. Sometimes Things get Much Much Much Much Longer
37. ! German !
38. Privacy Policy Datenschutz-Bestimmugen
39. Privacy Policy Datenschutz-Bestimmugen
40. Sometimes Things get short
41. ! Japanese !
42. No Smoking 
    
43. No Smoking 
    
44. Pseudolanguages and Officially Supported Languages
48. Watch out for Composed characters
50. Bah, Hum Bug
55. Sometimes Things Go thgiR ot tfeL
56. Sometimes Things Go Right to Left
57. ! Hebrew & Arabic "
58. NEW iOS 9 Toy: Automatic RTL Support
61. Names
62. Names are more complicated than you realize
63. Order and Meaning differ across languages
64. NEW iOS 9 Toy: NSPersonNameComponentsFormatter
65. NEW in iOS 9: NS Person Name Components Formatter
68. Name Components Formatter Pitfalls
69. Legal name vs. Preferred name
70. Language vs. Locale
71. Dates, Times, and Timezones
73. Dates, Times, and Timezones are more complicated than you realize
75. NSDateFormatter
77. NSDateComponents let apple do the math for you
78. NSTimeZone because nobody likes daylight savings time
79. NSCalendar Who you callin' Gregorian?
81. Numbers and Measurements
82. Numbers and Measurements you know these are complicated
87. TEH Codez https://github.com/designatednerd/LocalizationExplained
88. Tools » Twine: https://www.mobiata.com/blog/2012/02/08/ twine-string-management-ios-mac-os-x » Genstrings across multiple directories: http:// stackoverflow.com/questions/2744401/how-to-use- genstrings-across-multiple-directories
89. Recommended Reading/Viewing: Not Apple » Laura Savino at AltConf: https://realm.io/news/ altconf-laura-savino-localization-because-n-est- pas-por-todo-el-mundo/ » Tom Scott: The Problem With Time And Timezones: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5wpm-gesOY
90. Recommended Reading: Apple » Internationalization and Localization Guide: https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/ documentation/MacOSX/Conceptual/BPInternational/ Introduction/Introduction.html » How iOS Determines the Language For Your App https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/qa/qa1828/ _index.html
91. Recommended Viewing: Apple WWDC 2015 » 222: New UIKit Support for International User Interfaces » 227: What's New In Internationalization WWDC 2014 » 201: Advanced Topics in Internationalization » 412: Localizing With Xcode 6
92. Photo Credits » Matthew McConaughey in True Detective © HBO, used for illustrative purposes only.