Cross Platform: How to put an ampersand into TranslatedStrings

Question

I want to show the string "B & W" as a title.

If I put "B & W" into my TranslatedStrings, I get

Windows: "B W"

Mac: "B & W"

If I put "B && W" into my TranslatedStrings, I get

Windows: "B & W"

Mac: "B && W"

If I use the unicode for ampersand nothing changes. Do I have to use different zStrings for different Platforms? Or should I wrap the LOC function with custom code and always put "&&" into my TranslatedStrings?

johnrellis · Accepted Answer

The only workaround I've found is to substitute "&&" for "&" at runtime using this idiom: WIN_ENV and s:gsub ("&", "&&") or sI've had to do that with static_text.title.

drtonyb · Answer

@johnrellis

I realise that this is a very old post, but the problem with && in text strings on Windows has just reared its ugly head in a plug-in I'm developing.

Although I can use this ( WIN_ENV and "&&" or "&" ), it is a big problem when a string is part of a popup control.

I will give an example to make myself clear tomorrow. Put simply, in Windows using B&W in a normal text string works fine, but when it is an item in a popup list, B&W is displayed in the list as BW.

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