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Knut Anders Hatlen commented on DERBY-4725:
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I tested the following code:
String pattern = "Don't use single quotes! They're no good!";
String msg = MessageFormat.format(pattern, new Object[0]);
System.out.println(msg);
And here's what was printed:
Dont use single quotes! Theyre no good!
Also, some of our messages already use a single quote instead of double quotes.
One example is this message in the Italian translation:
42X34=Esiste un parametro ? nell'elenco di selezione. Ci\u00F2 non \u00E8
consentito.
Here's what it looks like when the error is raised:
ij> select ? from sysibm.sysdummy1;
ERRORE 42X34: Esiste un parametro ? nellelenco di selezione. Ciò non è
consentito.
Note that it says "nellelenco" instead of "nell'elenco". So it seems to me that
we should rather try to use double quotes consistently instead of moving to
single quotes.
> 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
>
> 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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