iPhone: string resource not resolved

preemptive sorry for the newbie question.

I'm trying to load strings from a resource file in an iPhone project (XCode, Objective C++). I've created a file called s.strings with the following content:

/* 
   s.strings
   Created by Seva on 11/22/09.
*/
"a"="b"

The file is in UTF-1开发者_如何学Go6, it's in the Resources folder in the project, XCode treats it as "text.plist.strings". There are no localizations to this file.

Then I'm trying to load that string on application start:

NSString *s = NSLocalizedStringFromTable(@"a", @"s", nil);

No matter what I do, the value of s is "a", as opposed to "b".

I must be missing something very basic - any ideas, please, what's wrong in this trivial example?

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Each statement in the strings file needs to be terminated with a semicolon (;).