Adding Quotes in Swift

Question

Is there a straightforward way in Swift for adding quotation marks to a String? The quotation marks should localize properly (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotation_mark) based on the user's language settings. I'd like to show the string in a UILabel after adding the quotes.

For instance:

var quote: String! quote = "To be or not to be..." // one or more lines of code that add localized quotation marks  

For a French user: «To be or not to be...»

For a German user: „To be or not to be...”

Answer 1

Using the information from http://nshipster.com/nslocale/:

let locale = NSLocale.currentLocale() let qBegin = locale.objectForKey(NSLocaleQuotationBeginDelimiterKey) as? String ?? "\"" let qEnd = locale.objectForKey(NSLocaleQuotationEndDelimiterKey) as? String ?? "\""  let quote = qBegin + "To be or not to be..." + qEnd print(quote) 

Sample results:

 Locale   Output   de      „To be or not to be...“  en      “To be or not to be...”  fr      «To be or not to be...»  ja      「To be or not to be...」 

I don't know if the begin/end delimiter key can be undefined for a locale. In that case the above code would fall back to the normal double-quote ".