Android format: Weblate incorrectly uses CR characters instead of "\n" for newlines [$15 awarded]

[paour]

When updating a string that contains newlines, Weblate merely uses CR characters rather than the "\n" characters required by Android.

Since Android ignores the CR characters, strings are displayed without newlines in the resulting application.

[nijel]

What Weblate and translate-toolkit versions are you using?

[paour]

> manage.py list_versions
 * Weblate weblate-1.6
 * Django 1.4.5
 * Django-registration 0.8
 * Translate Toolkit 1.9.0
 * Whoosh 2.3.2
 * GitPython 0.3.2 RC1
 * Git 1.7.10.4
 * PyCairo 1.8.8
 * Pango (PyGtk) 1.30.0
 * South 0.7.5

[paour]

Apostrophes (') also need to be escaped in Android string resources (to \'). This is not the case at the moment, and it breaks Android resources.

[nijel]

Hmm, this sounds strange - these were already fixed and are covered by testsuite (inside translate-toolkit). Have you made manual changes to any of Weblate or translate-toolkit?

[paour]

I have not made any changes. Would it help if I created an account for you on my server, or if I sent sample files?

[paour]

I've opened a bounty on this issue, hopefully this will help speed up the resolution (despite the rather small amount, sorry)…

[nijel]

I've tested this with today released 1.7 and I don't see neither of problems:

• Newlines are stored as \n
• Apostrophes are escaped as \'

So to me it looks like it was fixed. Please let me know if there is still something broken with 1.7.

[paour]

It does seem to work, thank you!