UTF-16LE version of the sample code

stringstocsv.rb

require 'rubygems'

class String
  def multibyte?
    chars.count < bytes.count
  end
end

if not ARGV[0]
  abort("please pass in a .strings file to process...")
end
stringsfiletoprocess = ARGV[0]


onelinecomment = "//"
multilinecomment = "/*"
counter = 1

# The encoding you sent looked like it was UTF16 Litte Endian.
# If not, change the encoding here
file = File.new(stringsfiletoprocess, "rb:UTF-16LE")

while (line = file.gets)
  #You can't mix UTF16 with ASCII, but you can if you use UTF8
  puts "#{counter}: #{line.encode("UTF-8").to_s}"
  #puts line
  if counter == 10
    # You'll explode here unless you make a UTF16 String.
    line = "// Alert Yes button".encode("UTF-16LE")
  end
  
  # Let the regex know what encoding you intend to use.
  regex = Regexp.new("\/\/ Alert Yes button".encode("UTF-16LE"))
  
  if line.match(regex)
    #Again, you can't mix UTF16 with ASCII, but you can if you use UTF8
    puts "one line comment: #{line.encode("UTF-8").to_s}"
  end
  #puts "line multibyte: #{line.multibyte?}"
  
  counter = counter + 1
  
  if counter == 12
    #abort("now")
  end
end
file.close