Having \? in aresource file for Android project

[razor313]

Describe the issue

Once we receive/download all translations in the Android project there's \ along with a question mark like this {MY_TEXT}\? But in the Weblate console, we don't have it! {MY_TEXT}?

I guess it has to do with this commit.

Also, I've read this thread but didn't help me.

I already tried

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Steps to reproduce the behavior

Define a new translation with ? Go to the file and download it, you will see it like \?

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[nijel]

That's correct, the ? should escaped in the file, see https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/resources/string-resource#escaping_quotes

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[razor313]

@nijel Yes, that's right! Thank you for sharing. 🙏

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[tipa]

I just noticed those escaped question marks in my downloads as well and was about to create an issue when I found this one.

I had special characters in my XMLs for years (@, ?, chinese characters) without issues. Only characters that need escaping are ' " < > &. When creating a new string resource in Android Studio, it does escape those, but no other characters - @, ? or chinese characters are not escaped.

So I am surprised about that linked documentation. And if Weblate aims to follow that documentation, wouldn't Chinese characters also have to be escaped? Because currently they aren't.

Also, the Android docs say you must escape the characters according to the standard XML/HTML escaping rules. However, whatever resource I pull up in the web, it only lists the 5 special characters I mentioned above: https://www.liquid-technologies.com/Reference/Glossary/XML_EscapingData.html https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1091945 https://docs.oracle.com/cd/A97335_02/apps.102/bc4j/developing_bc_projects/obcCustomXml.htm

So I don't know what "standard" Google is referring to here, but the entire internet seems to follow a different standard (as well as Android Studio - their own product).

I would appreciate if this bug report / change request could be reconsidered.

[nijel]

Okay, I did the research here and the escaping is needed. But it is only needed if the question mark is at the beginning of the string, see https://github.com/translate/translate/issues/5064 for more info.