check_strings_files
iOS .strings localization checker
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Compares two or more iOS Localizable.strings files (sent as base64-encoded raw file bytes, not text) against a base file and reports keys missing from each other file, keys present in another file but not the base ("extra", reported but not counted toward the issue total), values byte-identical to the base (often untranslated, sometimes intentionally so), duplicate values under different keys within the same file (case- and trailing-punctuation-insensitive), and lines that fail to parse with their line number. Sniffs a UTF-8 or UTF-16 LE/BE byte-order mark per file so files exported by Xcode in UTF-16 decode correctly instead of producing a wall of parse errors. Does not support the newer .xcstrings JSON catalogue format, and does not check plural rules or placeholder (%@/%d) consistency between files -- it is a pure key/value diff.
Input schema
| Property | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| files | array | yes | Two to 40 .strings files to compare against each other. |
| baseFile | string | no | Exact name of one of files[] to treat as the base ("compare against") file. When omitted, auto-selects the first file (after sorting all names alphabetically) whose name starts with "base." / "base-" / "base_" or "en." / "en-" / "en_" (case-insensitive), falling back to the alphabetically-first file if none match. A name that does not match any loaded file falls back the same way. |
Raw JSON schema
{
"$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#",
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"files": {
"minItems": 2,
"maxItems": 40,
"type": "array",
"items": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"name": {
"type": "string",
"minLength": 1,
"maxLength": 255,
"description": "File name, e.g. \"en.lproj/Localizable.strings\" -- shown in the report and used to auto-select the base file."
},
"content": {
"type": "string",
"minLength": 1,
"description": "Base64-encoded RAW BYTES of the file (not its decoded text) -- send it exactly as read from disk so BOM sniffing and UTF-16 decoding work the same way the browser tool's FileReader does."
}
},
"required": [
"name",
"content"
]
},
"description": "Two to 40 .strings files to compare against each other."
},
"baseFile": {
"description": "Exact name of one of files[] to treat as the base (\"compare against\") file. When omitted, auto-selects the first file (after sorting all names alphabetically) whose name starts with \"base.\" / \"base-\" / \"base_\" or \"en.\" / \"en-\" / \"en_\" (case-insensitive), falling back to the alphabetically-first file if none match. A name that does not match any loaded file falls back the same way.",
"type": "string",
"maxLength": 255
}
},
"required": [
"files"
]
}