Re: [android-developers] Using ? (question mark) and @ (at symbol) as values for a string resource

On 30 July 2010 14:11, Quintin Willison <qwillison@gmail.com> wrote:
> Trying to be a good boy here (all strings being declared in resource
> values) but have hit upon a non-critical but annoying issue...
>
> Example from res/values/strings.xml:
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
> <resources>
>  <string name="ButtonLabel_QuestionMark">?</string>
>  <string name="ButtonLabel_AtSymbol">@</string>
> </resources>
>
> Eclipse / Android SDK will not take either of these lines. e.g.:
>
> "error: Error: No resource found that matches the given name (at
> 'ButtonLabel_QuestionMark' with value '?')."
>
> I think the problem is to do with 'referencing style attributes' as
> described here:
> http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/resources/accessing-resources.html
>
> And I cannot seem to find a way to escape these characters in my XML.
> I would have expected this to be documented here:
> http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/resources/string-resource.html
>
> Any ideas? Am I missing something obvious?
>
> Thanks!
>
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