iOS - Writing NSDictionary to Localizable.strings

Question

This question is continuum to that one: iOS - Could I change the localizable.strings content during runtime?

The answer was useful, however, there is a problem that I am facing. The printed string doesn't include quotations (like these "") for single word keys and/or values. This made the Localizable.string invalid file. Hence, nothing is retrieved from it even for keys/values with correct format.

Example:

GBP = GBP; Glossary = Glossary; "Go_Location" = "Go to location";

First two are causing the file to be invalid strings file. How to fix that?

Answer 1

Use NSDictionary's

- (NSString *)descriptionInStringsFileFormat;

Then write the resulting string to a file using the appropriate encoding:

NSString* strings = [dict descriptionInStringsFileFormat];
[strings writeToFile: @"Localizable.strings" atomically: YES  encoding: NSUTF16StringEncoding  error: nil];

(Obviously add whatever error checking you need).