Single % in format string at res/values/strings.xml

[sanvila]

Hi. There is a single % in res/values/strings.xml which is causing problems to translators using gettext. Should this not be "%%" instead? Please see:

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gettext/2014-02/msg00012.html

Thanks.

[pryds]

Thank you for reporting this. It seems the bug is in android2po which I use for converting the Android string resource file (strings.xml) into gettext pot, and back again from translated po files. Android doesn't need escaping of %, so if I use "%%" directly in the xml file, it will appear as "%%" in the English UI.

If a single % in po(t) files causes problems for translators, android2po should convert single % into %% upon export, and %% into % upon import, which it doesn't seem to do, if I'm not mistaken.

I have reported this issue upstream: miracle2k/android2po#26
For now, I'll change the string in question to spell out "percent" instead of just "%".