Question

I am using Ruby on Rails 3.1.0 and I would like to know how to correctly state colon (punctuation) in a YAML file. I tried to support that by adding the following code in my config/locales/defaults/en.yml file

en
  # ':' is the HTML code for ':'
  test_key_html: Test value:

and in my view file I used

t('test_key_html')

but it doesn’t work (in the front end content is displayed the “plain” Test value: text).

Is it possible? If so how?

Answer 1

You should be able to double quote the value:

test_key_html: "Test value:"

This avoids colon-confusion in the YAML and gets your colon into your HTML.

Consider this in irb:

>> { 'en' => { 'test_key_html' => 'Test value:' } }.to_yaml
=> "--- \nen: \n  test_key_html: "Test value:"\n"