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Useful post! Iโm a bit concerned, however, about the use of USERLOCALE(). As an American who lives in Japan, I find it quite irritating when airlines etc. force me to read Japanese versions of their web pages merely because I happen to be located in Japan. Using USERLOCALE() to determine the display language might lead to similar problems. However, I think their may be another way to handle this:
Since the Localize feature allows expressions, it should be possible for the user to type his or own preferences (including display language) into the app and then for Localize to chose the proper display language based on that user designation.
One issue I just noticed: Here's how I've set "Save" to be "ไฟๅญ" in Japanese:
It works nicely:
However, "Done" (which comes up on my iPhone when editing), doesn't work in the same why. Here's the expression:
And here's what I see on my iPhone when I try to edit a file:
โThe language interface on my phone is also in Japanese but that doesn't seem to matter. @Koichi_Tsuji @takuya_miyai , I wonder if this has been an issue for your Japanese users. Granted, most Japanese probably understand "Done" but I think they would be more comfortable with "OK."
P.S. This "Done" expression only seems to come up when editing a record on an iPhone -- my Android device is just like my browser -- nothing other than "Save" (or "ไฟๅญ")
Thanks! I see "Done" only on iOS. This appears when I tap "Edit" on an app I use regularly and begin to edit data in a record. Here's how it works on iOS:
The screenshot on the left shows how "Done" comes up when I tap on a space to begin editing (regardless of whether or not I have changed anything). Then, after I tap "Done" (I guess to meet some requirement of the iOS interface), I can tap on "Save" and finish up.
On Android and on a computer browser I never see a "Done" button, just "Save":
In English, it's OK because "Done" doesn't seem out of place with the English interface. In Japanese, however, I can't figure out how to change "Done" to something that would be more appropriate so "Done" just stands out like a sore thumb, so to speak.
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Thanks for your response. My take is slightly different. I don't think it's a matter of the issue being iOS or AppSheet. Rather, I think it must be something about how AppSheet is interacting with the iOS platform. Clearly, there's something about the iOS platform that is different from both Android and web browsers but I haven't been able to replicate the issue in any other iOS Google apps (Slides, Sheets, etc.) or other popular iOS apps such as LINE or Facebook, etc. So, as I say, I think it must have to something to do with how AppSheet is interacting with iOS.
A related question is, in AppSheet, what is "Done" in the localization settings anyway? AppSheet allows us to localize "Done" and other words, but as far as I can see, we don't have access to clear explanations about when and how each of the terms we might localize can come up in our apps. Of course, in some cases this is obvious. But "Done" is one of several cases where I'm not sure exactly what I'm localizing. If my localization of "Done" doesn't apply to this instance, what is it supposed to apply to? I hope we can agree that this lack of a clear explanation is an AppSheet issue.
Finally, one note about the part of the iOS interface that displays "Done":
Please look at the up and down arrows to the left of "Done." This is a convenient tool for moving the editing cursor between fields. Here AppSheet seems to be taking advantage of a feature that is unique to iOS. I can't believe, however, that AppSheet doesn't have the capability to control the text on the "Done" mark too.
I hope an engineer who understands the details of how localization works in the AppSheet platform will look into this. @jcadence Help please!
@dbaum Your response prompted me to search for "iOS virtual keyboard done" which led me to an answer. In Safari, when the phone's system is set to Japanese, the iOS virtual keyboard behaves as it does in AppSheet in that a "Done" button appears -- but it's labeled in Japanese, not English:
Now I think I understand the issue with "Done" in AppSheet: The AppSheet iPhone app ignores the language setting of the phone and always presents menus in English. For example, please look at the following:
This AppSheet interface is always in English regardless of the language to which iOS (or Android, etc.) is set to.
I've already ask why the editing interface is only in English. I guess this is the same sort of issue.
