I am trying to generate Localizable strings using genstrings -SwiftUI *.swift command, but terminal is not able to find it. I tried checking solution online where it's suggested to use find ./ -name "*.swift" -print0 | xargs -0 genstrings -a -SwiftUI -o en.lproj, but i am not sure what i should replace en.lproj with, or is it even mandatory?

If i execute above command withou -o, it's generating the Localizable strings in project, but they are greyed out. So, i tried checking error by executing pl < Localizable.strings in terminal, in my project directory. Below is the output-:

*** Exception parsing ASCII property list: NSParseErrorException Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=3840 "Unexpected character / at line 1" UserInfo={NSDebugDescription=Unexpected character / at line 1, kCFPropertyListOldStyleParsingError=Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=3840 "Unexpected character '0x0' at line 9" UserInfo={NSDebugDescription=Unexpected character '0x0' at line 9}}

Xcode error -:

no --inputencoding specified and could not detect encoding from input file

I have checked line 1 there is no such / unexpected character.Can anyone suggest what's going wrong?

Thank you in advance.

I'm stuck as well. genstrings successfully made a Localizable.strigns file for me but I get the error "could not decode input file using specified encoding: Unicode (UTF-8), and the file contents appear to be encoded in Unicode (UTF-16)" on the first line and I don't know where the error is.

Also, it strangely made this line:

"%@:\n%@" = "%1$@:\n%2$@";

Update (hopefully this helps somebody else):

In my Localizable.strings file I changed my Text encoding to UTF-16. (It's default was at UTF-8.) This text encoding parameter can be found at File Inspector > Text Settings > Text Encoding. When you switch to UTF-16, Xcode will ask your if you want to Convert it or Reinterpret it. I honestly don't know. I just tried Reinterpret since it seemed less scary. It compiled now and I think it's working fine so far. We'll see.

I believe this issue might have happened because Swift 5 switched from UTF-16 to UTF-8 and I guess Localizable.strings is expecting UTF-16. Idk.

I had the same problem, and realized my problem was:

All my views swift files were under another folder called Views.

It was resolved for me with this command

genstrings -SwiftUI