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Re: Curly quotes don't work in Localizable.strings
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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:

> I use Project Builder. I can't figure out how to change the encoding.
>
> I have a feeling it is more than that, though, since it seems that in
> the places in the Apple included apps where curly quotes appear in the
> German version, there are no quotes in the English version. For example,
> in the German version of System Preferences' Localizable.strings file,
> it says:
>
> %@ konnte nicht geladen werden.
>
> But in the English version of that same file, for the same key, it says:
>
> Could not load %@
>
> Notice no quotes in the English version. This appears in many places in
> the Apple installed apps, and is really weird.
>
> So, why can't English-style quote marks (specifically, the problem
> appears to be the right quote mark) be put in localizable strings?
>
> On Saturday, January 5, 2002, at 08:30 PM, Kevin Fyure wrote:
>
>> You have to encode and save it as UNICODE fomat, if you use BBEdit or
>> TextEdit.
>>
>> Kevin
>>
>> On Sunday, January 6, 2002, at 08:16 AM, Charles Srstka wrote:
>>> Whenever I try to put a curly quote in a Localizable.strings file, the
>>> string that gets retrieved ends up having a lot of garbage in it. Does
>>> anyone know why this is?
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