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Knut Anders Hatlen commented on DERBY-4725:
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The way I read the javadoc for MessageFormat, our message files won't be
well-formed if we change them as suggested. Do we feel confident that all JVMs
will behave as described above when they see a single quote?
I noticed this section in MessageFormat's javadoc, by the way:
Warning:
The rules for using quotes within message format patterns unfortunately
have shown to be somewhat confusing. In particular, it isn't always obvious to
localizers whether single quotes need to be doubled or not. Make sure to inform
localizers about the rules, and tell them (for example, by using comments in
resource bundle source files) which strings will be processed by MessageFormat.
Note that localizers may need to use single quotes in translated strings where
the original version doesn't have them.
> Fix message build so that double quotes aren't inserted for English messages.
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> Key: DERBY-4725
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DERBY-4725
> Project: Derby
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Localization
> Affects Versions: 10.6.1.0
> Reporter: Rick Hillegas
> Priority: Minor
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> When messages_en.properties is generated from messages.xml, single quotes are
> turned into double quotes. For instance, the text for 42XAC is turned into
> ''INCREMENT BY'' value can not be zero.
> This doesn't seem to cause any harm. MessageFormat does the right thing and
> strips out the extra quote. If the messages only have single quotes,
> MessageFormat also does the right thing and leaves the phrase single-quoted.
> The double quotes, however, are confusing to the people who are localizing
> the 10.6 messages. There would be less confusion if the build did not insert
> extra quotes.
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