Re: Curly quotes don't work in Localizable.strings
Re: Curly quotes don't work in Localizable.strings
- Subject: Re: Curly quotes don't work in Localizable.strings
- From: "Jeff Galyan" <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 05 Jan 2002 22:53:22 -0700
Interestingly enough, the German text you pasted into your email doesn't
display the quotes in my English-language email client. Perhaps this issue
is a general issue in English-language Cocoa?
(the quotes show as empty squares on my system)
--Jeff
On 1/5/02 8:35 PM, "Charles Srstka" <email@hidden> wrote:
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I use Project Builder. I can't figure out how to change the encoding.
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I have a feeling it is more than that, though, since it seems that in
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the places in the Apple included apps where curly quotes appear in the
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German version, there are no quotes in the English version. For example,
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in the German version of System Preferences' Localizable.strings file,
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it says:
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%@ konnte nicht geladen werden.
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But in the English version of that same file, for the same key, it says:
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Could not load %@
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Notice no quotes in the English version. This appears in many places in
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the Apple installed apps, and is really weird.
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So, why can't English-style quote marks (specifically, the problem
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appears to be the right quote mark) be put in localizable strings?
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On Saturday, January 5, 2002, at 08:30 PM, Kevin Fyure wrote:
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> You have to encode and save it as UNICODE fomat, if you use BBEdit or
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> TextEdit.
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> Kevin
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> On Sunday, January 6, 2002, at 08:16 AM, Charles Srstka wrote:
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>> Whenever I try to put a curly quote in a Localizable.strings file, the
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>> string that gets retrieved ends up having a lot of garbage in it. Does
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>> anyone know why this is?
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