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 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1040019.
Axel
On 7/11/14 4:26 PM, Axel Hecht wrote:
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:
- returns "some \unicode", "some \a"
(doesn't drop unknown escapes apparently)
Compare-locales:
- dies with a python error on parsing in my code on foo, bar is "some a"
My mental parser:
- returns "some unicode", "some a"
I dislike both java and compare-locales, and I think that both gaia and
xpcom don't work great.
What's your take?
Axel
cross-posting to .platform for xpcom, .tools.l10n for gaia's l10n.js
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