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Commit a967cade authored by Andrew Solovay's avatar Andrew Solovay
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cherrypick from lmp-docs Docs: Correcting how to escape quotes.

Original Change-Id: I417546a473f0ebe76a6e4102b87883a85365ac26

The behavior for single and double-quotes is different--I expanded
this section to note how they differ.

bug: 19959941
Change-Id: I9be9c066c416e9403a3ac164af0b1ce35f7ab1dd
parent 26a8090a
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format and style your string resources.</p>


<h3>Escaping apostrophes and quotes</h3>
<h3 id="escaping_quotes">Escaping apostrophes and quotes</h3>

<p>If you have an apostrophe or a quote in your string, you must either escape it or enclose the
whole string in the other type of enclosing quotes. For example, here are some stings that
do and don't work:</p>
<p>
  If you have an apostrophe (<code>'</code>) in your string, you must either
  escape it with a backslash (<code>\'</code>) or enclose the string in
  double-quotes (<code>""</code>). For example, here are some strings that do
  and don't work:
</p>

<pre>
&lt;string name="good_example">"This'll work"&lt;/string>
&lt;string name="good_example_2">This\'ll also work&lt;/string>
&lt;string name="good_example">This\'ll work&lt;/string>
&lt;string name="good_example_2">"This'll also work"&lt;/string>
&lt;string name="bad_example">This doesn't work&lt;/string>
&lt;string name="bad_example_2">XML encodings don&amp;apos;t work&lt;/string>
    &lt;!-- Causes a compile error -->
</pre>

<p>
  If you have a double-quote in your string, you must escape it
  (<code>\"</code>). Surrounding the string with single-quotes does
  <em>not</em> work.
</p>

<pre>
&lt;string name="good_example">This is a \"good string\".&lt;/string>
&lt;string name="bad_example">This is a "bad string".&lt;/string>
    &lt;!-- Quotes are stripped; displays as: This is a bad string. -->
&lt;string name="bad_example_2">'This is another "bad string".'&lt;/string>
    &lt;!-- Causes a compile error -->
</pre>

<h3>Formatting strings</h3>