localizable.strings

Xcode - Localizable.strings no longer works

I've got an iPhone project and my english Localizable.strings suddenly doesn't work anymore. I just noticed the english Localizable.strings file in the resulting .app-folder hardly has any data in it at all. From my 3500 bytes original english file, the one in the .app is 50 bytes (compared with the japanese which is 3000 bytes in the .a...

iPhone dev: is there any way to read from Localizable.strings file different from the current locale?

When developing iPhone app, is there a good way to read from Japanese Localizable.strings file when your currentLocale is not Japanese? (e.g. your current locale is Korean for example). Thanks in advance! ...

Trouble with iPhone NSLocalizedStrings after migrating to a different computer.

I have built a universal application for iPhone and iPad which uses Localizable.strings for German and French localization – the app's native language is English. The app builds and runs normally in iPhone/iPad Simulator and iPhone/iPad Device. I recently bought a new laptop and installed Xcode. When I checkout my project from the Subve...

iphone - reading from Localizable.strings file as a key-value in a dictionary

I want to read the text from the localizable.strings file. I am collecting the strings for translation from several directories and file in one .strings file. But then I have several copies of the same translation strings. I want to remove this programmatically. So I need to read the strings only (not the comments) from the .strings fil...

iPhone App Localization - English problems?

Hey everyone, I have an app that I am translating to a bunch of different languages. The problem is that the app will have a few different values in Australia than will in New Zealand, which are both English speaking countries. I have created an en_AU and an en_NZ language file, but they're both using the standard English file. I delet...

Xcode: Localizable.strings: Conversion of string failed. The string is empty. copystrings failed with exit code 1

Hi everybody, I use a Localizable.strings file and replaces the strings in my app with NSLocalizedString(@"KEY",@" COMMENT"). I replaced up to now a lot of strings and it worked well. I have added some more strings and now I have got the following error message : CopyStringsFile build/Debug-iphoneos/Australia.app/en.lproj/Localizable....

iPhone Localization without English.

Hey everyone, I have an app that's only supported in Dutch and French. English is not an available language for this app. If I want to use localizable strings, the default always gets set on English. I want this to be dutch. So what I did was use the English localizable strings file and fill it up with dutch words. Only problem I have...

Localizable.strings woes

My Localizable.strings file has somehow been corrupted and I don't know how to restore it. If I open it as a Plain Text File it starts with weird characters that I can't copy here. If I leave the file be the app builds. If I make any changes either the values aren't interpreted properly or I get an error at compile time. Localizable.s...