NSLocale currentLocale always returns “en_US” not user's current language

Question

I\'m in the processes of internationalizing an iPhone app - I need to make programmatic changes to certain views based on what the user\'s current locale is. I\'m going nut

Answer 1

I had an issue where formatting month names came out in english on a device set to french language.

My solution was to use this:

    NSLocale *locale = [NSLocale localeWithLocaleIdentifier:[[NSLocale preferredLanguages] objectAtIndex:0] ];
    [self.monthNameFormatter setLocale:locale];
    [self.monthNameFormatter setDateFormat:@"MMMM"];
    [self.monthNameFormatter stringFromDate:myDate];