Localizable.strings - The data couldn’t be read because it isn’t in the correct format

Question

If I copy something from textedit or web and paste it to localizable file it shows this compilation error. If I type those in localizable file it does not show any error. I am a

Answer 1

There can be multiple reasons for this:

1. Semi-colon is missing.
2. Invalid white space in file.
3. Other invalid characters in file.
4. I had merge conflict characters in it!

<<<<<<< HEAD, ======= and >>>>>>>.

Please note that plutil -lint Localizable.strings returned OK for point-4!