Re: XIB format
Re: XIB format
- Subject: Re: XIB format
- From: Chris Idou <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 21:50:55 -0800 (PST)
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>> This means it is undocumented, and even if you do reverse-engineer it, it may change in the future.
>
>Thanks. Sadly, this makes it impractical to do i8n stuff in a cross-platform manner when dealing with tens of thousands of strings. In the real world, anyone doing the translation work does not want
>to have to open up these files individually to edit the strings stored within...they want all of the strings in a single place when translating - what XLIFF tools are designed to provide. Unfortunately,
>since it is a private format, no one is going to want to reverse engineer the format.
>
>Or, have I missed something?
>
>I have filed a bug report - rdar://6577707
As Joar alluded to, ibtool can suck all the strings out of an XIB file, and then it can reinsert translated strings back in to make a localized version. In other words it should be fairly trivial to integrate it with XLIFF.
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