[2.X-java] Apostrophes don't show up in Messages

[tony]

I've set up a messages.en file that contains my messages, but apostrophes don't seem to work. I've tried escaping with backslashes and even using '. Can anyone help me out?

Thanks in advance

[Jay]

I reported this a while ago, but never got an answer. I don't know if its by design or a bug, but it is escaped with an additional apostrophe.

so

property.name= Don''t have an ....

[tony]

Thanks Jay that's super helpful.

[James Roper]

This is not a bug, Play uses standard Java message formats for messages.  Here is the message format spec from the Java docs:

http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/text/MessageFormat.html

Quotes are considered special characters in Java message formats, from the spec:

Within a String, "''" represents a single quote.