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author Andrew Solovay <asolovay@google.com> 2015-04-23 20:36:42 +0000
committer Android Git Automerger <android-git-automerger@android.com> 2015-04-23 20:36:42 +0000
commit62eaad7200e172404db587ecec9940670946e92a (patch)
tree0da30ff12951ed699f18b02bac35629775191829
parent9af35e73adb813b7a73a2802ac14c7810c90bc6a (diff)
parentf9787d87e03987561f13888b912f96b2e473b674 (diff)
am f9787d87: Merge "cherrypick from lmp-docs Docs: Correcting how to escape quotes. Original Change-Id: I417546a473f0ebe76a6e4102b87883a85365ac26" into lmp-mr1-ub-docs
* commit 'f9787d87e03987561f13888b912f96b2e473b674': cherrypick from lmp-docs Docs: Correcting how to escape quotes. Original Change-Id: I417546a473f0ebe76a6e4102b87883a85365ac26
-rw-r--r--docs/html/guide/topics/resources/string-resource.jd30
1 files changed, 23 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/docs/html/guide/topics/resources/string-resource.jd b/docs/html/guide/topics/resources/string-resource.jd
index cbfa82e7dafd..743e69233645 100644
--- a/docs/html/guide/topics/resources/string-resource.jd
+++ b/docs/html/guide/topics/resources/string-resource.jd
@@ -401,19 +401,35 @@ android.content.res.Resources#getQuantityString(int,int) getQuantityString}.</p>
format and style your string resources.</p>
-<h3>Escaping apostrophes and quotes</h3>
+<h3 id="escaping_quotes">Escaping apostrophes and quotes</h3>
-<p>If you have an apostrophe or a quote in your string, you must either escape it or enclose the
-whole string in the other type of enclosing quotes. For example, here are some stings that
-do and don't work:</p>
+<p>
+ If you have an apostrophe (<code>'</code>) in your string, you must either
+ escape it with a backslash (<code>\'</code>) or enclose the string in
+ double-quotes (<code>""</code>). For example, here are some strings that do
+ and don't work:
+</p>
<pre>
-&lt;string name="good_example">"This'll work"&lt;/string>
-&lt;string name="good_example_2">This\'ll also work&lt;/string>
+&lt;string name="good_example">This\'ll work&lt;/string>
+&lt;string name="good_example_2">"This'll also work"&lt;/string>
&lt;string name="bad_example">This doesn't work&lt;/string>
-&lt;string name="bad_example_2">XML encodings don&amp;apos;t work&lt;/string>
+ &lt;!-- Causes a compile error -->
</pre>
+<p>
+ If you have a double-quote in your string, you must escape it
+ (<code>\"</code>). Surrounding the string with single-quotes does
+ <em>not</em> work.
+</p>
+
+<pre>
+&lt;string name="good_example">This is a \"good string\".&lt;/string>
+&lt;string name="bad_example">This is a "bad string".&lt;/string>
+ &lt;!-- Quotes are stripped; displays as: This is a bad string. -->
+&lt;string name="bad_example_2">'This is another "bad string".'&lt;/string>
+ &lt;!-- Causes a compile error -->
+</pre>
<h3>Formatting strings</h3>