Re: .properties and a single \u

2014-07-17 Thread Axel Hecht
gandalf, stas, and I talked about this a bit, and we intend to settle with my mental parser plus a compare-locales warning: Broken escapes just pass through, \u - u, but we'll extend compare-locales to issue a warning on the l10n dashboard in those cases. The work is tracked in

.properties and a single \u

2014-07-11 Thread Axel Hecht
Hi, in .properties foo = some \unicode bar = some \a creates the most icky output. I'd like to get a defined behavior, but it turns out to be hard. Java: - dies with a parsing error on foo, bar is some a XPCOM: - returns some , as \u is converted to \0 on foo, bar is some a Gaia: -