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DateFormatter returning string with incorrect language

I'm trying to show a formatted date at my device's language but it keeps showing in English (even though the device is set to Portuguese).

At my ViewController I created a date:

let todaysDate: Date = Date()

And I call this function (that it's an extension of Date):

func getFullDate() -> String {
    let dateFormatter  = DateFormatter()
    dateFormatter.dateFormat = "dd MMMM yyyy"
    dateFormatter.calendar = Calendar.current
    dateFormatter.locale = Locale.current
    return dateFormatter.string(from: self)
}

The output is always in English:

08 March 2019

I also checked if the Locale.current is correct in the terminal and I got:

▿ en_BR (current)

I don't want to define the language hardcoded because I want to support other languages, but it's not working. Could you please give me any tips on how to solve this?

Solution

  • Thank you very much for your help!

    I just found out that I only had Localized strings for English and as rmaddy pointed out in this link with iOS 11 I also need to have a Localized string file for the language I want to support (in my case Portuguese).

    So I just added support for Portuguese at Language localization section and now it's working correctly! :D

    Localization