[zanata-users] Unwanted insertion of escape character when pulling utf8properties from Zanata

[Ankitkumar Rameshchandra Patel]

While printing it should be fine if the backslash is simply getting
ignored, but while displaying messages on the user interface, which is
the case for Mozilla translations, then I think it must be fixed no
matter even if there's no difference.

Thanks,
Ankit

On 01/15/2015 04:52 PM, Alessandro Portosa wrote:
> I found my answer here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.properties#Format.
> Even if they are message strings, maybe Zanata prefers to add the
> backslash to avoid any confusion between normal and special characters.
> Anyway the \! should simply mean "this is not a special char, just a
> normal exclamation mark"... Therefore, on the application side nothing
> should change. If, as I think, there are no difference when the strings
> are printed, this is fine...
> Let me know if I am wrong in something!
>
> Alessandro.
>
> Il 15/01/2015 12:10, Ankitkumar Rameshchandra Patel ha scritto:
>> I faced the same issue while translating some of the Mozilla
>> utf8properties files. I still don't understand why the backslash is
>> added in message strings?
>>
>> /Ankit
>>
>> On 01/15/2015 04:36 PM, Alessandro Portosa wrote:
>>> Nevermind, just figure it out why.
>>> Depending of the code language, ! could be used to specify a comment,
>>> and : can be used as delimiter between the key and the value. That's why
>>> the backslash.
>>>
>>> Alessandro.
>>>
>>> Il 15/01/2015 11:01, Alessandro Portosa ha scritto:
>>>> Hi all,
>>>> I manage to use and run an instance of Zanata server. I use it to
>>>> translate Java Properties (UTF-8 Encoding), which are also
>>>> synchronized with my svn repository. To be short, the architecture is
>>>> something like this: "Zanata Server" <-zanata-cli-> "Working Copy"
>>>> <-svn-> "Code Repository". Everything seems to work great, except for
>>>> one thing. Look at thes exported properties.
>>>>
>>>> Source file en_US (pushed on Zanata via zanata-cli)
>>>> 9016 = The field %0 must be an alphanumeric string (letters and
>>>> numbers with other character such as parenthesis and -_;:!?,./)
>>>> Translation file it_IT which (1) has been pushed and (2) then pulled
>>>> 9016=Il campo %0 deve essere una stringa alfanumerica (lettere e
>>>> numeri con altri caratteri quali parentesi e -_;\:\!?,./)
>>>>
>>>> I can't figure it out why Zanata has added "\" to "!" and ":", anche
>>>> why only at these two character.
>>>> Any help?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Alessandro.
>>>>
>>>>
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