Is Xcode giving you the error in Localizable.strings “Read failed: The data couldn’t be read because it isn’t in the correct format.” but it isn’t telling you what line the error is on? Use the command line tool plutil to find that missing semicolon or double quote. cd to the directory of the offending Localizable.strings file and run plutil -lint Localizable.strings It should respond with something like: CFPropertyListCreateFromXMLData(): Old-style plist parser: missing semicolon...