MessageFormat.AutoQuoteApostrophe(String) Method

Definition

Namespace:

Android.Icu.Text

Assembly:

Mono.Android.dll

<strong>[icu]</strong> Converts an 'apostrophe-friendly' pattern into a standard pattern.

[Android.Runtime.Register("autoQuoteApostrophe", "(Ljava/lang/String;)Ljava/lang/String;", "", ApiSince=24)]
public static string? AutoQuoteApostrophe (string? pattern);

[<Android.Runtime.Register("autoQuoteApostrophe", "(Ljava/lang/String;)Ljava/lang/String;", "", ApiSince=24)>]
static member AutoQuoteApostrophe : string -> string

Parameters

pattern

String

the 'apostrophe-friendly' pattern to convert

Returns

String

the standard equivalent of the original pattern

Attributes

RegisterAttribute

Remarks

<strong>[icu]</strong> Converts an 'apostrophe-friendly' pattern into a standard pattern. <em>This is obsolete for ICU 4.8 and higher MessageFormat pattern strings.</em> It can still be useful together with java.text.MessageFormat.

See the class description for more about apostrophes and quoting, and differences between ICU and java.text.MessageFormat.

java.text.MessageFormat and ICU 4.6 and earlier MessageFormat treat all ASCII apostrophes as quotes, which is problematic in some languages, e.g. French, where apostrophe is commonly used. This utility assumes that only an unpaired apostrophe immediately before a brace is a true quote. Other unpaired apostrophes are paired, and the resulting standard pattern string is returned.

<b>Note</b>: It is not guaranteed that the returned pattern is indeed a valid pattern. The only effect is to convert between patterns having different quoting semantics.

<b>Note</b>: This method only works on top-level messageText, not messageText nested inside a complexArg.

Java documentation for android.icu.text.MessageFormat.autoQuoteApostrophe(java.lang.String).

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