We have discovered that Tapestry 3.0.3 treats apostrophes differently
in .properties files
depending on whether you use getMessage() or format(). This
particularly affects apostrophe-heavy
languages like French. In particular, if a message looks like this:
username = Nom d'utilisateur
then getMessage("username") returns the expected string, but
format("username") returns
"Nom dutilisateur", which is clearly wrong. Digging a bit, we learned
that apostrophes
are used to escape braces, and correct syntax for an apostrophe is to
double it. OK, fine:
we can change the above to
username = Nom d''utilisateur
so that format("username") works. But that makes
getMessage("username") return the double
apostrophe -- argh!
For now we are using this rule:
* if a message has {nnn} in it, double apostrophes
* if not, don't
in order to avoid incorrect user messages. But this is gross. If we
have to double apostrophes
in .properties files, we should have to double them in *all* properties!
So... is this a bug in Tapestry 3? Or are we just using .properties
files incorrectly here?
If it is considered a bug, I would be happy to cook up a patch.
Greg
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