[macrophyllum]

My program has a French version and almost everything localizes except for a few things and I can't figure out why. The main thing that won't localize are strings drawn in an NSView.

My custom view draws a string, using [theString drawAtPoint:aPoint withAttributes:attrDict].

I have the following line in my drawRect method:

[self drawTitles:NSLocalizedString(@"Test", nil)];

//Here is drawTitles

-(void)drawTitles:(NSString *)title {

NSRect rect = [self bounds];
float l = [title length];
NSPoint p = NSMakePoint(rect.size.width/2.0 -(2.7*l) , rect.size.height-18.0);
[title drawAtPoint:p withAttributes:info];
}

If in my French localizable strings file I put
"Test" = "French Test";
French Test will not get drawn--"Test" gets drawn.

Now if in my English localizalbe strings file I put "Test" = "English Test";
"English Test" gets drawn. I haven't had problems like this before with localizing, but this one I can't figure out.

Help appreciated.

[Angus_D]

Get info on your French Localizable.strings in Project Builder, and make sure it's either UTF-8 or UTF-16.

[macrophyllum]

Thanks for the suggestion, it is in UTF-8 format...still no luck

[Angus_D]

Check you haven't missed a ; or a " or anything. See if you get any errors in the console about not being able to parse the file.

[macrophyllum]

Nope, no console errors and I have checked and checked for missing commas or mis-spellings. Still can't figure it out! I know the French files are getting loaded because other things are localized, like toolbar labels.