Keys with dots in them prevents files from saving

[Jasius]

Hey,

So basically if there's anything like

"whatever": { "please wait...": "Please Wait..." }

The file doesn't want to save, I understand that such keys shouldn't be made in the first place(they were made by some other dev not me) but it would be good if the app threw an error or something in such cases rather than refusing to save, took me a few minutes to figure this bug out.

[nobbih]

Same behaviour in java property files ? If yes, that would be a serious bug

[Jasius]

Just tried with .json

[jcbvm]

Dots in translation keys are preserved, this is by design. The dots are used to create a tree structure of the keys. so like a.b means b is a sub key of a. In the future there might be a setting to change this separator.

[Jasius]

In the future there might be a setting to change this separator.

That would be good because right now I have to exclude country manually before passing translations to translator device.

Country in question

"Virgin Islands, U.S.": "Virgin Islands, U.S.",

[nobbih]

From my point of view using a key like "Virgin Islands, U.S." makes absolutely no sense. So I would propose to support the translation of dots to tree structure in the key and ignore the dots in the property.
Java property files are handling that very well - and have been around for a long time. Why not keep that behaviour in the json representation also ?

[nobbih]

@Jasius I do not understand why you need somethink like that
"whatever": { "please wait...": "Please Wait..." }
in a I8N property file ?
Sticking to keeping the key/message pairs in separated files per language is the best option in my view and has been around a long time successfully

[Jasius]

I don't need it and I wouldn't do that if i could, these keys aremade in the back end and higher up refused to change, remove it.