Support persisting attributes like formatted="false" about android2po HOT 6 CLOSED

Can you explain in more detail what the problem is? The string you posted seems to work fine for me on both import and export.

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http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/resources/string-resource.html

Check the formatting and Styling section.

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You're a bit cryptic, but I think you may be talking about this issue:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4414389/android-xml-percent-symbol
http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers/browse_thread/thread/017d92dd987a8682

To fix this on your end for now, rather than using formatted="false", you probably could also use "%%s: %%s" (see the accepted answer on StackOverflow).

As for android2po, I think what needs to be supported here is a way to persist attributes like "formatted=false" through the conversion to and from a gettext catalog, so that the resource in the generated language-specific XML files will also have the formatted="false" set if the string in the original did.

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Sorry I was writting on my phone.

My idea with this is:

If the original holds two %s it would be nice that android2po took care of adding the formatted="false".

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I might be willing to implement this as a temporary workaround, if it's needed.

Once android2po is able to correctly copy tag attributes from the original to the language-specific XML files, an auto-detection of "%s %s" wouldn't be needed anymore, since the developer is required to add formatted="false" to his original values/strings.xml file anyway.

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You are right. The developer should have the original strings correctly formatted.

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