posted a bug report for this issue, as this makes i18n almost impossible: http://code.google.com/p/google-web-toolkit/issues/detail?id=6647
On Jul 25, 11:55 am, googelybear <googelyb...@gmail.com> wrote: > just found out that this only affects properties loaded via the > Constants interface. When using <ui:msg> in uibinder files the old > trick still works (I guess this goes via MessageFormat). But when > loading the property programmatically using Constants interface it > does NOT work (meinaing 2 '' in the source file will also be outputted > as 2 ''). > > On Jul 25, 11:40 am, googelybear <googelyb...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > > Hi, > > > I am a bit puzzled about this, is no one else facing this issue? How > > did you guys solve it? > > > According to the official Message Format javadoc from Oracle (http:// > > download.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/text/MessageFormat.html) > > the old trick with doubling the quotes should still work (quote): > > "Within a String, "''" represents a single quote. " > > > but when I write the following property in my properties file: > > "foo = you can''t do this" > > > the output will be "you can''t do this" - with 2 single quotes still > > present - instead of one according to the javadoc. > > > Is this a gwt bug? > > > thanks for any feedback, > > Dennis > > > On Jun 25, 3:31 pm,googelybear<googelyb...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I am developing a multi locale app and as described in many posts > > > (e.g. [1] or [2]) so far I have always put 2 quotes when I wanted a > > > single quote to appear in the output in my language properties files > > > (e.g. "that''s right" will become "that's right"). This was very > > > annoying for translators and often got forgotten, meaning I had to fix > > > it manually. But it worked. > > > > Now I received a bug report from the client stating that all quotes > > > are printed twice on the website (which turned out to be true). > > > > I will now go back and replace all the double quotes with single > > > quotes again. > > > > I don't know in which version of GWT that changed (I suspect 2.2 or > > > 2.3). > > > > Did others also experience the same issue? If so, why have we not been > > > warned about this change by the GWT team? If not, do you have any idea > > > what could have caused this? > > > > thanks, > > > Den > > > > [1]http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit/browse_thread/threa... > > > [2]http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit/browse_thread/threa... -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Web Toolkit" group. To post to this group, send email to google-web-toolkit@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-web-toolkit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit?hl=en.