Interpolation doesn’t need escaping, but String(format:) does.

Saagar Jha

> On May 11, 2017, at 02:44, Adam Sutcliffe via swift-users 
> <swift-users@swift.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I've been having an issue with a localised string,, one of which has a 
> percentage sign in it:
> 
> "GAMERANK_5_DESC" = "Wow! You're racing ahead. Only 5%% of our users get 
> here!";
> 
> the key is built as such:
> 
> Obj-c : NSString *key = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"GAMERANK_%@_DESC",rank];
> 
> Swift: let key = "GAMERANK_\(rank)_DESC"
> 
> Then localised with the same macro:  NSLocalizedString(key, @"");
> 
> The output is different though:
> 
> Obj- C = "Wow! You're racing ahead. Only 5% of our users get here!"
> Swift = "Wow! You're racing ahead. Only 5%% of our users get here!"
> 
> Is this a bug in the swifts localisation parsing? Does the percentage sign 
> not need to be escaped in Swift?
> 
> Cheers
> 
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> 
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> ADAM SUTCLIFFE
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