Re: Localizable.strings

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On Friday, August 10, 2001, at 12:17 PM, Michael Scheibler wrote:

> I wanted to create the file Localizable.strings, but unfortunately it 
> must
> not be a dictionary but a properties file. Please help me - I don't 
> know how
> to create a properties file. I think that's what the tool defaults is 
> for,
> but it aborts with a STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION on mingw.

For property-lists, you use a text editor ... the property-list format 
is simple.
Type 'defaults plist' for an example/introduction.
Use the plparse tool to check your property list syntax -
'plparse foo.plist' to see if foo.plist contains a syntactically correct 
property-list.


That being said, a .strings file is another (related) format - lines of 
the form
name=value;
with comments of the form /* this is a comment */, and using the same 
escape sequences
as in a property list.

For a strings file, you can use the sfparse program to check consistency.