Compose Multiplatform XML should not escape Android special characters

sasikanth · June 1, 2025, 6:13am

For Compose Multiplatform strings you don’t need to Android escape special characters like ?, @ or quotes. But syncing the translations is adding quotes.

Here is the link to the documentation where they mention that.

It would be great if we can have an option to disable it or have it as default. I tried disabling escape special characters and quotes, but since this is based on Android file type, it has no impact.

github.com/msasikanth/twine

crowdin.yml

main

"files": [
  {
    "source": "/shared/src/commonMain/composeResources/values/strings.xml",
    "translation": "/shared/src/commonMain/composeResources/values-%two_letters_code%/strings.xml",
    "escape_special_characters": 0,
    "escape_quotes": 0
  }
]

Tetiana · June 1, 2025, 10:14am

Hi @sasikanth Please contact us at support@crowdin.com with the project URL and we’ll be able to connect a special post-processor to escape quotes in Android XML