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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> 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 <p>
whole string in the other type of enclosing quotes. For example, here are some stings that If you have an apostrophe (<code>'</code>) in your string, you must either
do and don't work:</p> 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> <pre>
&lt;string name="good_example">"This'll 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="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">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> </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> <h3>Formatting strings</h3>