[Adium-devl] Compression.

[Evan Schoenberg]

On Jan 29, 2007, at 7:48 AM, Chris Forsythe wrote:

>> The Localizable.strings files go from 188 KB to 32 KB, and there  
>> 22 of
>> them, one per language.
>>
>> 50% of the text of a Localizable.strings file is comments; these
>> comments are nice to have in the English file so that a new localizer
>> can begin translation, but are totally unnecessary in all the others.
>> I think I've seen a tool to remove these /* blah */ comments before,
>> but I can't find it now.  Running such a tool would be a good  
>> addition
>> to our release Makefile.
>
>
> Would grep -v "/*" do the trick? Something like cat file | grep -v  
> "/*"

Localizable.strings aren't ASCII, they're UTF-16, so grep can't work  
with 'em out of the box.  Something like that -- using ^ to anchor to  
the start of the line, and then stripping blank lines -- could be  
effective, though, if there's a way to use grep or a similar tool on  
the files.
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