Character Escape Issue in French Localization ("Aujourd'hui" Displayed Incorrectly)

[dev-a]

Hello,

I wanted to give some feedback regarding a character escape issue in the French version of the app.

On the "Today" page, the word "Aujourd'hui" is displayed as "Aujourd'hui" with a backslash before the apostrophe.

Here’s a screenshot for reference:

I did a quick search on the translation platform (https://hosted.weblate.org/projects/tasks/android/) but was unable to locate the source of the problem.

Version: 13.11.1

[layus]

To add on this, the label is improperly displayed in a header for example here:

tasks/wear/src/main/java/org/tasks/presentation/components/CollapsibleHeader.kt

Line 21 in ed1f584

text = title,

from here:

tasks/app/src/main/res/values-fr/strings.xml

Line 220 in ed1f584

<string name="today">Aujourd\'hui</string>

or here:

tasks/kmp/src/commonMain/composeResources/values-fr/strings.xml

Line 29 in ed1f584

<string name="today">Aujourd\'hui</string>

But quotes are properly displayed in the parameters list:

tasks/app/src/main/res/xml/preferences.xml

Line 34 in 31afc84

app:title="@string/EPr_edit_screen_options" />

from here:

tasks/app/src/main/res/values-fr/strings.xml

Line 58 in 31afc84

<string name="EPr_edit_screen_options">Modifier les options d\'affichage</string>

From this it is tempting to assume that Text values from andoidx...material3 are properly escaped, while xml ui templates expect the escapes to exist in the translation.
Fixing kmp/src/commonMain/composeResources/values-fr/strings.xml to not contain escapes would help I think. Ideally this setting should be set in weblate.

But it is probabaly not enough, as the improper quote also happens in

tasks/app/src/main/res/values-fr/strings.xml

Line 614 in 31afc84

<string name="sort_due_group">Fin %s</string>

, when the date is today_lowercase.

This is where I get lost in all the combinations, but here are a few screenshots to show when it works and when it fails.

[abaker]

I have started migrating the app to compose multiplatform, and that involves migrating or duplicating some strings in the multiplatform library instead of the android app. And apparently multiplatform resources don't require single or double quotes to be escaped.

I manually fixed these in 2178b4b, I hope this doesn't cause any issues with weblate 🤞

[layus]

Thank you so much !