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Is there an easy way to merge Localizable.strings files?

Problem: Using genstrings to create Localizable.strings files from a project. A few weeks later, some things changed and I run genstrings again. 75% of the new file is already in the old file. How could I merge the new file with the old file, so…
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iPhone: Update Localizable.strings files using genstrings?

I have generated my strings file correctly using genstrings. I have changed the localized strings for my different languages. Now, I have added a few more NSLocalizedString() occurrences and I want to generate those into all of my localized…
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genstrings chokes when using the value parameter in Swift

I have a basic Swift file Test.swift which contains import Foundation import UIKit class Test: NSObject { let a: String let b: String override init() { a = NSLocalizedString("key 1", tableName: nil, bundle:…
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iOS - genstrings: couldn't connect to output directory en.lproj

I searched for this error online and here. Online it shows me results in a different language then english nice Google. Here it has one post and a guy that never really answered the guys question. I have my xcode project folder on my desktop. Inside…
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Force genstrings to build the Localizable.strings file in order of appearance rather than alphabetically

I'm new to internationalization and localization for iOS. I'm running genstrings: find . -name \*.m | xargs genstrings -o en.lproj to generate my Localizable.strings files. It builds the file in alphabetical order (by key). For ease of translation…
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Swift Localization: Genstrings

I'm trying to prepare my app to be passed off to translators for localization, but I'm running into some issues. I added the file "Localizable.strings" to my project, and I have "Use Base Internationalization" checked. Looking at my app in Xcode,…
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Can genstrings work on custom #defines?

The macros iOS has for creating localized strings are pretty awesome when used with genstrings. However, I'd like to create my own #define on top of one of the macros like so: #define MyLocalizedStringWithDefaultValue(key, tbl, val, comment)…
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genstrings -s still matches with NSLocalizedString*

I think this is either a genstrings bug or "feature", but wanted to see if anyone has come across this or knows the answer. I was planning on opening a Radar for this. We use our own localization macro. Let's call it CustomLocalizedString. In our…
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Character encoding of Localizable.strings, generated by genstrings

In my "ViewController.swift", I have a localized string: TheOutLabel.text = NSLocalizedString("hello", comment: "The \"hello\" word") In the Terminal, to generate the "Localizable.strings" file, I typed: cd Base.lproj/; genstrings ../*.swift; cat…
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Is there a way to make `genstrings` work with `LocalizedStringKey`?

Is there a way get Apple's genstrings command line tool to recognize localizable string keys defined from SwiftUI's LocalizedStringKey initializer? For this input file (testing-genstrings.swift): ... import UIKit import SwiftUI enum L10n { …
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genstrings tool throwing exception, aborting when parsing XCode project

I've been using genstrings to build strings files to internationalize my iPhone app. However, some changes I made recently have caused the genstrings tool to start throwing errors like this: s1075-88:Directory jason$ genstrings -o en.lproj…
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Change genstrings generated key (Object ID) extracted from Storyboard for localization?

I pressed the Localize... button on my storyboard to generate a strings file so that the storyboard may be localized into other languages. In one the strings file that corresponds to a storyboard, I see something like this: "orz-58-mzb.text" = "We…
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How to run genstrings on only files of Xcode project's active target?

I've been using a Build Phase Run Script to execute a shell script that finds all the *.m files in my project directory, and passes them to genstrings, as a way of creating my localizable strings file. find ${SOURCE_ROOT} -name "*.m" -print0 | xargs…
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genstrings does not work with macro for NSLocalizedString

I would like to shorten "NSLocalizedString" to "_" so I'm using macro _(x) NSLocalizedString(@x, @__FILE__) . But now, when I want to generate strings for localization with find . -name \*.m | xargs genstrings it generates nothing. Any help?
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Has anyone got String type enums to work with genstrings?

I'm trying to use genstrings in my project to output a localized strings file. It works fine and dandy when, say, you have a string represented like this: NSLocalizedString("My String", comment: "My String") However, I've decided to use String-type…
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