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Hello, so yesterday i started creating a simple app, i wanted to translate it into 2 languages - English and Latvian, but i couldn't find any good and simple way to do it as i wanted, or i just couldn't figure it out, anyways here is what i want to do - if(Language == English){ english = true;} That's all i need, and same for Latvian language, like, if you android devices system language is set to english then english = true, but if latvian then latvian = true. Is it even possible? If it is then please help! Thank you!

 

Hi,

Maybe you could determine the user language by checking:

Code (CSharp):

1. System.Globalization.CultureInfo.CurrentCulture

 

It shows me en-US but how to use it in the if statement?

 

Something like:

Code (CSharp):

1. if(System.Globalization.CultureInfo.CurrentCulture.Name == "en-US")
2. {
3.     // Apply english translation
4. }

 

Sorry, it doesn't work, your code works but only on unity, when i built my game and installed it on my phone it didn't.

 

Have you tried to figure out what will be returned on your phone? E.g. output it on a gui element or use the dev console in your build and see what will be returned.

 

If you mean this then yes - if language = en-US then it translates all text into english, i don't have a lot of text there bcz there is mostly letters and numbers but still xd And i said it works on PC, tought it works on phone too but when i tested it on phone, i changed language to englis (United States) and nothing happened, also tried to restart my phone - nothing.

 

Sorry, but I'm confused now. Is it working or not?
You said it's not working on your phone, so either the property returns something different than 'en-US' or it just doesn't work at all.

 

Sorry im tired and english isn't my first language, it works on pc in unity editor, but for some reasion it doesn't work on phone. And yes maybe it returns something else but i tried to switch my phone language to English (US), English (UK) etc. and still didn't work.

 

Then, as I said, just try to output (on your phone) what will be returned by

Code (CSharp):

1. System.Globalization.CultureInfo.CurrentCulture.Name

.

Then you'll see why it doesn't work.

 

Just tried that, it returns nothing, on pc it returns en-US, on phone - *empty space*, doesn't matter witch language i choose, none returns anything.

 

Okay, I guessed so.

Try Application.systemLanguage which is part of the Unity API.
It's hopefully implemented in a way so that it does the platform specific calls to figure out the language.

 

Thank you, it works perfectly! This is what i ended up using - Application.systemLanguage.ToString() == "English"