Lessons from internationalizing Trello, part I: plurals on iOS
On page 52 of my copy of K&R, in a discussion of the ?: operator, is this line of code: printf(“You have %d item%s.\n”,…
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Lessons from internationalizing Trello, part II: designing for translators
When coding i18n support in an iOS app, you need to know technical things like how to use Localizable.strings files and NSLocalizedString(). And when…