Rubustrings

Check the format and consistency of the Localizable.strings files of iOS Apps with multi-language support

Rubustrings is also available for Android here

Usage

It only needs the files to validate as arguments

./rubustrings Localizable.strings

Validators

Currently Rubustrings validates:

• The syntaxis of the strings file: Just the format of each line: "key" = "value";
• Dynamic values (%@, %d, %ld,...): It checks that the translation include the same set of them than the original string.
• Special characters at the beginning or at the end: If the original string begins or ends with a white space,\n or \r it tests that the translation also does.

It also warning on:

• Untranslated strings: In missing translations
• Translation significantly large: In translations 3 times larger than original string

Example

dcordero@silver:~$ ./rubustrings Localizable.strings
Processing file: "Localizable.strings"

✘ Beginning mismatch: " Tubasa" = "Tubasa";
✘ Invalid format: "bad format" = "because of a missing quote;
✘ Number of variables mismatch: "Web %@" = "Web";

✘ Some errors detected

dcordero@silver:~$ ./rubustrings Localizable.strings
Processing file: "Localizable.strings"
✓ Strings file validated succesfully

License

MIT License (MIT) Copyright (c) 2014 @dcordero