Get localized week days

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Created Jun ’19

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I want to get localized week day. On xCode, my app has only english language for the moment and I set the application region to "French".

When I run this code :

print("\(Calendar.current.locale)")
print("\(Calendar.current.shortWeekdaySymbols)")

I have this output:

Optional(en_FR (current))
["Sun", "Mon", "Tue", "Wed", "Thu", "Fri", "Sat"]

I understand "en_FR" as "en" because my only language is english, and FR is the region. But why shortWeekdaySymbols is not consistent with my FR region?

Answered by Claude31 in 365735022

Then read them

        let prefLanguage = Locale.preferredLanguages[0]

and replace

        calendar.locale = NSLocale(localeIdentifier: "fr_FR") as Locale

with

        let prefLanguage = Locale.preferredLanguages[0]
        var calendar = Calendar(identifier: .gregorian)
        calendar.locale = NSLocale(localeIdentifier: prefLanguage) as Locale

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Answer 1

john daniel OP

Jun ’19

The region is for things like currency symbols and date/time formatting. Language is for language.

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Answer 2

Claude31 OP

Jun ’19

Doc states:

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/foundation/calendar/2292848-shortweekdaysymbols

By default, Calendars have no locale set. If you wish to receive a localized answer, be sure to set the

locale

property first - most likely to

Locale.autoupdatingCurrent

.

I did the following:

        var calendar = Calendar(identifier: .gregorian)
        calendar.locale = NSLocale(localeIdentifier: "fr_FR") as Locale
        print(calendar.shortWeekdaySymbols)

To get

["dim.", "lun.", "mar.", "mer.", "jeu.", "ven.", "sam."]

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Answer 3

chepiok OP

Jun ’19

Thanks for the answer. But I'm trying to have a generic solution that use the user phone setting (and not hardcoded).

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Answer 4

Claude31 OP

Jun ’19

Accepted Answer

Then read them

        let prefLanguage = Locale.preferredLanguages[0]

and replace

        calendar.locale = NSLocale(localeIdentifier: "fr_FR") as Locale

with

        let prefLanguage = Locale.preferredLanguages[0]
        var calendar = Calendar(identifier: .gregorian)
        calendar.locale = NSLocale(localeIdentifier: prefLanguage) as Locale

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Answer 5

chepiok OP

Jun ’19

Thanks. In Swift 4 :

let prefLanguage = Locale.preferredLanguages[0]
var calendar = Calendar(identifier: .gregorian)
calendar.locale = Locale(identifier: prefLanguage)

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Answer 6

smenorX OP

Sep ’20

This is annoying and unsatisfying because there is no reasonable argument that Calendar.autoupdatingCurrent shouldn't / wouldn't give the properly formatted dates in the current language, and (b) because even accepting that, it still seems to start the week on dimanche rather than lundi like any civilised country would do

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