[TIMOB-2560] Android: Locale strings with quotes/apostrophes cause syntax errors in generated strings.xml

GitHub Issue	n/a
Type	Bug
Priority	Low
Status	Closed
Resolution	Fixed
Resolution Date	2011-04-17T01:59:27.000+0000
Affected Version/s	n/a
Fix Version/s	Release 1.6.0 M02
Components	Android
Labels	android, defect, locale, release-1.6.0, strings
Reporter	Marshall Culpepper
Assignee	Bill Dawson
Created	2011-04-15T03:22:47.000+0000
Updated	2011-04-17T01:59:27.000+0000

Description

Android strings inside a <string> tag must be escaped if they use quotes or apostrophes. From the ADT strings.xml editor:
"If you use an apostrophe or a quote in your string, you must either escape it or enclose the whole string in the other kind of enclosing quotes."

The escape character is simply "\"

Attachments

File	Date	Size
quotestring.zip	2011-04-15T03:22:48.000+0000	770498

Comments

Bill Dawson 2011-04-15

To QA:

You can test this by importing the attached project in QuoteString.zip. In the failcase, it won't even compile when you click 'Launch', because it has some values in i18n/en/strings.xml which contain single and double quotes that are not preceded by backslashes (required by the Android resource compiler.)

After you install the fixed version of the mobile sdk, the project should launch fine, and you'll see two labels (about Jimmy Stewart) which should match each other. One is typed directly into the .JS file, the other is getting the string from the i18n/en using our localization framework.
Bill Dawson 2011-04-15

(from [9bdcc77bd04c006be3b9c1bd739d45f37fdd4b4f]) [#2560 state:fixed-in-qa] In string resources (i18n), check for quotes and double-quotes not preceded by backslashes and fix them https://github.com/appcelerator/titanium_mobile/commit/9bdcc77bd04c006be3b9c1bd739d45f37fdd4b4f"> https://github.com/appcelerator/titanium_mobile/commit/9bdcc77bd04c...
Thomas Huelbert 2011-04-15

[INFO] Titanium SDK version: 1.6.0 (01/04/11 08:01 e49700d) emulator 2.2, device 2.2.1 droid 1 and 1.6 g1.

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