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title: Preparing your interface for localization
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# Preparing your interface for localization

Find text in your app that needs translation and verify that your interface adapts to translated text.

## Overview

Overview Before you localize your app, use Xcode to identify nonlocalized strings in your interface and to verify whether your interface adjusts to the characteristics of localized strings. Find nonlocalized strings Nonlocalized strings are text that appears in your interface that Xcode won’t include in exported files. To find nonlocalized strings in your app, choose Product > Scheme > Edit Scheme in Xcode. In the sheet that appears, select the Run scheme action in the left column, and click Options on the right. Then select “Show non-localized strings” under Localization Debugging and click Close. When you run your app, the nonlocalized strings appear in all caps.

Run your app using pseudolanguages You can test your interface with samples of text that exhibit the characteristics of different types of languages. In Xcode, choose Product > Scheme > Edit Scheme. In the sheet that appears, select the Run scheme action in the left column, and click Options on the right. Choose one of the pseudolanguages at the bottom of the App Language pop-up menu and click Close in the sheet.  |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |

## See Also

### Strings and text

- [Preparing your app’s text for translation](xcode/preparing-your-apps-text-for-translation.md)
- [Preparing dates, currencies, and numbers for translation](xcode/preparing-dates-numbers-with-formatters.md)