How to keep Storyboard strings up to date?

Question

I have the Storyboard, Base language and translated all the app into another language, so far it's working fine.

I would like to know, when I add new elements in the Storyboard that needs to be localized, how do you keep the strings file up to date.

I tried a suggestion, which is to switch this: to Interface Builder Cocoa Storyboard and then back to Localizable Strings, however the results are not good, most of the translation is lost and switched back to the Base language.

Is there a handy tool to regenerate and merge the strings in Storyboard? I tried few scripts but they always ended up wiping everything.

Answer 1

I've modified a skript that i've found here on stackoverflow to be able to also handle the localized strings in storyboards.

The skript only adds new key-value pairs to the .strings file, but keeps the ones that you have already translated.

You can get it from my github, for more details about my localization workflow read my blogpost