NSLocale and country name

Question

I used this code for getting which country iPhone belong to:

NSLocale *locale = [NSLocale currentLocale]; NSString *countryCode = [locale objectForKey: NSLocaleCountryCode]; NSString *country = [locale displayNameForKey: NSLocaleCountryCode value: countryCode]; 

and I want to get the country name always in English, but if the iPhone is in any other language it returns the country name in that language...

Answer 1

Query an english locale for the displayName

like this:

NSLocale *locale = [NSLocale currentLocale]; NSString *countryCode = [locale objectForKey: NSLocaleCountryCode];  NSLocale *usLocale = [[NSLocale alloc] initWithLocaleIdentifier:@"en_US"];  NSString *country = [usLocale displayNameForKey: NSLocaleCountryCode value: countryCode]; 

Answer 2

Here is a bit a code for getting some informations about the available NSLocale-Objects in SWIFT, Just put the code into the Playground:

func printInEnglish() {      // get all available Identifiers     let allLocaleIdentifiers : Array<String> = NSLocale.availableLocaleIdentifiers as Array<String>      // init an english NSLocale to get the english name of all NSLocale-Objects     let englishLocale : NSLocale = NSLocale.init(localeIdentifier :  "en_US")      // enumerate all available Identifiers     for anyLocaleID in allLocaleIdentifiers {          // get the english name         var theEnglishName : String? = englishLocale.displayName(forKey: NSLocale.Key.identifier, value: anyLocaleID)         if theEnglishName == nil {theEnglishName = "no english name available"}          // create a NSLocale-Object         let anyLocale : NSLocale  = NSLocale.init(localeIdentifier : anyLocaleID)          // ask for CurrencyCode, CurrencySymbol and CountryCode, ... of the created NSLocale-Object         var theCurrencyCode : String? = anyLocale.object(forKey: NSLocale.Key.currencyCode) as? String         if theCurrencyCode == nil {theCurrencyCode = "no Currency Code available"}          var theCurrencySymbol : String? = anyLocale.object(forKey: NSLocale.Key.currencySymbol) as? String         if theCurrencySymbol == nil {theCurrencySymbol = "no currency symbol available"}          var theCountryCode : String? = anyLocale.object(forKey: NSLocale.Key.countryCode) as? String         if theCountryCode == nil {theCountryCode = "no country code available"}          var theLanguageCode : String? = anyLocale.object(forKey: NSLocale.Key.languageCode) as? String         if theLanguageCode == nil {theLanguageCode = "no language code available"}          // print the result -> see the result in LoggingArea of xCode         print("Identifier   : \(anyLocaleID)\nName         : \(theEnglishName!)\nCurrencyCode : \(theCurrencyCode!)\nSymbol       : \(theCurrencySymbol!)\nLanguageCode : \(theLanguageCode!)\nCountryCode  : \(theCountryCode!)\n----------------------------")     } }  printInEnglish() 

You get this kind of information (example):