Re: Localizable.strings file with extra ^@ symbols everywhere
Re: Localizable.strings file with extra ^@ symbols everywhere
- Subject: Re: Localizable.strings file with extra ^@ symbols everywhere
- From: Trever Wilhelm <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 11:45:31 -0700
It wasn't Vim that was causing the problem. That's just where I noticed the
extra characters. The strange behavior was inside Xcode when I tried to do
things like double click a word to highlight it. It would only highlight
one character. It's as if Xcode's editor didn't understand the word
boundaries in UTF-16.
The other odd behavior was having to press the right arrow key twice to move
one character, and the build warning messages.
Thanks everyone for the replies.
Trever
> From: Scott Tooker <email@hidden>
> Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 11:42:21 -0700
> To: Chris Ridd <email@hidden>
> Cc: "email@hidden" <email@hidden>, Trever
> Wilhelm <email@hidden>
> Subject: Re: Localizable.strings file with extra ^@ symbols everywhere
>
> .strings files are always set to use UTF-16 since they need to support
> languages with 2-byte characters like Japanese or Chinese. It doesn't
> surprise me that vim may not properly display UTF-16.
>
> Scott
>
> On Apr 23, 2004, at 11:19 AM, Chris Ridd wrote:
>
>> On 23/4/04 6:21 pm, Trever Wilhelm <email@hidden> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> Does anyone know why my Localizable.strings files might contain ^@
>>> characters between every letter in the file? When I look at the file
>>> in
>>> Xcode, it looks like a normal text file. But if I open it in Vim, I
>>> see the
>>> control characters between every character in my file.
>>
>> The file's been saved as UTF-16, which is a way of encoding Unicode
>> using 2
>> bytes per character. Since most of your text is probably ASCII, the
>> high
>> bytes (ie every other byte) will be \0.
>>
>> I think UTF-16's the preferred encoding for Localizable.strings, but
>> you
>> could change the encoding inside Xcode, and maybe play around with
>> cutting
>> and pasting to get the text into your source.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Chris
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