How to represent a localized string type in Core Data?

Question

I\'m new to Core Data, and am struggling with some of it conceptually (relative to, say, SQL, which I understand).

I\'m trying to build a model which for the sake o

Answer 1

I don't know if I qualify as somebody who groks core data but I've used something like this in the past:

name in Something is the english name. So I don't have to search the relationship in english language devices (which covers 70% of the devices for my app).
And there is a getter called localizedName in the Something subclass that either returns name or the string for the currently used language code.

When I did this I thought that I could save the localized string in the name property because languages usually don't change often on devices that are not used by developers. But finally I decided against this because that wasn't a performance problem.

Another variant I thought I could use to fight against non-existing performance problems:

currentLanguageString basically points to the localized string of the current language. It is changed everytime the language changes (in 99.9% of all cases this happens one time, when the app is first launched).

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if you have more than one string in the Something entity I would make LocalizedString an abstract parent class of subclasses specifically created for the string you want to localize.
You have to use such strange constructs because you can't create a relationship to more than one entity.

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Or if you know what you are doing, ignore the "no inverse relationship" warning

but if you go this way you have to make sure that you never delete a LocalizedString object that is still in use. You don't want to end with an inconsistent storage.