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Merge "Docs: Correcting section on how to escape quotes in strings." into lmp-docs

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format and style your string resources.</p>
<h3>Escaping apostrophes and quotes</h3>
<h3 id="escaping_quotes">Escaping apostrophes and quotes</h3>
<p>If you have an apostrophe or a quote in your string, you must either escape it or enclose the
whole string in the other type of enclosing quotes. For example, here are some stings that
do and don't work:</p>
<p>
If you have an apostrophe (<code>'</code>) in your string, you must either
escape it with a backslash (<code>\'</code>) or enclose the string in
double-quotes (<code>""</code>). For example, here are some strings that do
and don't work:
</p>
<pre>
&lt;string name="good_example">"This'll work"&lt;/string>
&lt;string name="good_example_2">This\'ll also work&lt;/string>
&lt;string name="good_example">This\'ll work&lt;/string>
&lt;string name="good_example_2">"This'll also work"&lt;/string>
&lt;string name="bad_example">This doesn't work&lt;/string>
&lt;string name="bad_example_2">XML encodings don&amp;apos;t work&lt;/string>
&lt;!-- Causes a compile error -->
</pre>
<p>
If you have a double-quote in your string, you must escape it
(<code>\"</code>). Surrounding the string with single-quotes does
<em>not</em> work.
</p>
<pre>
&lt;string name="good_example">This is a \"good string\".&lt;/string>
&lt;string name="bad_example">This is a "bad string".&lt;/string>
&lt;!-- Quotes are stripped; displays as: This is a bad string. -->
&lt;string name="bad_example_2">'This is another "bad string".'&lt;/string>
&lt;!-- Causes a compile error -->
</pre>
<h3>Formatting strings</h3>