diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index ded6067..87f9141 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+.DS_Store
 *.py[cod]
 
 # C extensions
diff --git a/MANIFEST.in b/MANIFEST.in
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+++ b/MANIFEST.in
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+include README.md LICENSE
+recursive-include localizable *.py
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diff --git a/localizable/__init__.py b/localizable/__init__.py
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diff --git a/localizable/localizable.py b/localizable/localizable.py
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+++ b/localizable/localizable.py
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+# Adapted from Transifex: https://github.com/transifex/transifex/blob/master/transifex/resources/formats/strings.py
+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+# GPLv2
+
+"""
+Apple strings file handler/compiler
+"""
+
+from __future__ import absolute_import
+import codecs, re, chardet
+
+
+"""
+Handler for Apple STRINGS translation files.
+
+Apple strings files *must* be encoded in cls.ENCODING encoding.
+"""
+
+format_encoding = 'UTF-16'
+
+def _unescape_key(s):
+    return s.replace('\\\n', '')
+
+def _unescape(s):
+    s = s.replace('\\\n', '')
+    return s.replace('\\"', '"').replace(r'\n', '\n').replace(r'\r', '\r')
+
+def _get_content(filename=None, content=None):
+    if content is not None:
+        if chardet.detect(content)['encoding'].startswith(format_encoding):
+            encoding = format_encoding
+        else:
+            encoding = 'UTF-8'
+        if isinstance(content, str):
+            content.decode(encoding)
+        else:
+            return content
+    if filename is None:
+        return None
+    return _get_content_from_file(filename, format_encoding)
+
+def _get_content_from_file(filename, encoding):
+    f = open(filename, 'r')
+    try:
+        content = f.read()
+        if chardet.detect(content)['encoding'].startswith(format_encoding):
+            #f = f.decode(format_encoding)
+            encoding = format_encoding
+        else:
+            #f = f.decode(default_encoding)
+            encoding = 'utf-8'
+        f.close()
+        f = codecs.open(filename, 'r', encoding=encoding)
+        return f.read()
+    except IOError, e:
+        print "Error opening file %s with encoding %s: %s" %\
+                (filename, format_encoding, e.message)
+    except Exception, e:
+        print "Unhandled exception: %s" % e.message
+    finally:
+        f.close()
+
+def parse_strings(content="", filename=None):
+    """Parse an apple .strings file and create a stringset with
+    all entries in the file.
+
+    See
+    http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/MacOSX/Conceptual/BPInternational/Articles/StringsFiles.html
+    for details.
+    """
+    if filename is not None:
+        content = _get_content(filename=filename)
+
+    stringset = []
+    f = content
+    if f.startswith(u'\ufeff'):
+        f = f.lstrip(u'\ufeff')
+    #regex for finding all comments in a file
+    cp = r'(?:/\*(?P<comment>(?:[^*]|(?:\*+[^*/]))*\**)\*/)'
+    p = re.compile(r'(?:%s[ \t]*[\n]|[\r\n]|[\r]){0,1}(?P<line>(("(?P<key>[^"\\]*(?:\\.[^"\\]*)*)")|(?P<property>\w+))\s*=\s*"(?P<value>[^"\\]*(?:\\.[^"\\]*)*)"\s*;)'%cp, re.DOTALL|re.U)
+    #c = re.compile(r'\s*/\*(.|\s)*?\*/\s*', re.U)
+    c = re.compile(r'//[^\n]*\n|/\*(?:.|[\r\n])*?\*/', re.U)
+    ws = re.compile(r'\s+', re.U)
+    end=0
+    start = 0
+    for i in p.finditer(f):
+        start = i.start('line')
+        end_ = i.end()
+        key = i.group('key')
+        comment = i.group('comment') or ''
+        if not key:
+            key = i.group('property')
+        value = i.group('value')
+        while end < start:
+            m = c.match(f, end, start) or ws.match(f, end, start)
+            if not m or m.start() != end:
+                print "Invalid syntax: %s" %\
+                        f[end:start]
+            end = m.end()
+        end = end_
+        key = _unescape_key(key)
+        stringset.append({'key': key, 'value': _unescape(value), 'comment': comment})
+    return stringset
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diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
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+++ b/requirements.txt
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+chardet==2.1.1
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diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
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+++ b/setup.py
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+#!/usr/bin/env python
+import os, re
+from distutils.core import setup
+
+def get_requirements(filename):
+    """
+    Read requirements and dependency links from a file passed by parameter
+    and return them as two lists in a tuple.
+    """
+    def add_dependency_link(line):
+        link = re.sub(r'\s*-[ef]\s+', '', line)
+        filename = os.path.basename(link.split('://')[1])
+        url = link.split(filename)[0]
+        if url not in dependency_links:
+            dependency_links.append(url)
+
+    requirements = []
+    dependency_links = []
+    for line in open(filename, 'r').read().split('\n'):
+        if re.match(r'(\s*#)|(\s*$)', line):
+            continue
+        if re.match(r'\s*-e\s+', line):
+            # TODO support version numbers
+            requirements.append(re.sub(r'\s*-e\s+.*#egg=(.*)$', r'\1', line))
+            add_dependency_link(line)
+        elif re.match(r'\s*-f\s+', line):
+            add_dependency_link(line)
+        else:
+            requirements.append(line)
+    return requirements, dependency_links
+
+requirements, dependency_links = get_requirements('requirements.txt')
+
+setup(name='localizable',
+      version='0.1',
+      description='Localizable.strings parser for Apple-specific localization files',
+      author='Chris Ballinger',
+      author_email='chris@chatsecure.org',
+      url='https://github.com/chrisballinger/python-localizable',
+      license="GPLv2",
+      long_description=open('README.md').read(),
+      packages=['localizable'],
+      install_requires=requirements,
+     )
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