Hello Gilles, To avoid native2ascii transformation, cal10n uses its own parser of property files. What you are describing looks like a bug in that parser. Could you please enter a bug report for this? TIA, On 30/03/2010 11:55 AM, Gilles Sadowski wrote:

Hi.

When in a "properties" file containing the localized message patterns, there is a single quote in a pattern, it doesn't appear in the output and prevents the conversion of the curly-braced variables that follow it.

E.g. if a "math_messages_fr.properties" contains this line:

---CUT--- OUT_OF_RANGE=La valeur {0} est hors de l intervalle [{1}, {2}] (message localisé) ---CUT---

the ouput I get is

---CUT--- La valeur -1 est hors de l intervalle [0, 3] (message localisé) ---CUT---

as expected.

However, when the pattern is changed to:

---CUT--- OUT_OF_RANGE=La valeur {0} est hors de l'intervalle [{1}, {2}] (message localisé) ---CUT---

(with a single quote before the word "intervalle"), the ouput I get is now

---CUT--- La valeur -1 est hors de lintervalle [{1}, {2}] (message localisé) ---CUT---

In the Javadoc of the "Properties" class, they say: "Escapes are not necessary for single and double quotes; however, by the rule above, single and double quote characters preceded by a backslash still yield single and double quote characters, respectively."

[I also tried escaping with a single slash character but the result is the same.]

So it seems that it is not the case when using CAL10N. Did I miss something from the documentation?

Best regards, Gilles