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over 1 year ago

BUG : String resource with a double quote character renders as escaped

If a string resource includes a double quote character (ASCII code 34), then the string is rendered incorrectly with a backslash escape character. For example, consider this string resource for a lat/lon position format that will be used as an option in a setting.

<strings>
    <string id="IncorrectString">hddd°mm'ss"</string>
</strings>

When that resource is retrieved and displayed, the result is displayed with an extraneous backslash character as such:

hddd°mm'ss.s\"

This happens regardless of how I try to escape or replace the quote character. CIQ is able to handle other replacements (eg. &apos; or &#176;) so it seems to only be an issue with the double quote character. For reference, I've tried:

  • hddd°mm'ss.s"
  • hddd°mm'ss.s\"
  • hddd°;mm'ss.s&quot;
  • hddd°mm'ss.s&#34;
  • hddd°;mm'ss.s&#x22;
  • hddd°;mm&apos;ss.s&quot;

All of those tries above return the same string with the backlash character: hddd°mm'ss.s\"

This happens in both the simulator and on various actual/physical devices.

I don't know if this is a holdover/bug related to this *old* issue -- https://forums.garmin.com/developer/connect-iq/f/discussion/126/cannot-escape-quotation-marks-in-strings/596 -- but I don't see how to accomplish this. And I looked at the Strings example code in case there was a weird way/workaround but none of the strings in that sample code include a quote character.

This occurs with SDK 4.1.6 but I don't know how long it's been like this.

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  • Yes and I don't know why as developers reports a lot of bugs.

    We've had a patch to the docs for quite a while, 
    but it won't make it to production for a little while.

    1. a little while for 5s fix

    2. and as usually when you don't make short action quickly it changes into ,,, 2 years

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  • Yes and I don't know why as developers reports a lot of bugs.

    We've had a patch to the docs for quite a while, 
    but it won't make it to production for a little while.

    1. a little while for 5s fix

    2. and as usually when you don't make short action quickly it changes into ,,, 2 years

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