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

[Sean Flanigan]

Ankit, are you saying that Mozilla doesn't understand the
backslash-escaping when it comes to Properties files, so it's showing
the backslash in the localised UI?  If so, could you please put in a bug
against Zanata?

(utf8properties has been a bit of a nightmare - as a file format, Java
Properties were bad enough, but the UTF-8 Properties files used by GWT
and Mozilla are even worse.)


On 2015-01-15 21:32, Ankitkumar Rameshchandra Patel wrote:
> 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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Sean Flanigan

Senior Software Engineer
Engineering - Internationalisation
Red Hat

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