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I recently wrote an article on Compose Multiplatform where I walked through a real-world implementation, discussed the challenges I faced, and provided insights on whether Compose Multiplatform is ready for production in it's current state. I’d love to hear your thoughts and opinions on this.
<https://medium.com/proandroiddev/exploring-the-viability-of-cross-platform-ui-development-with-compose-multiplatform-c5be0608b69d>

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Could you show the string resources which don't work with the compose multiplatform?

<@UJ456JG2K> Sure, this is one example in the article:

```<string name="signup_email_question">What\'s your email?</string>```
When escaping the apostrophe with the backslash character, the apostrophe is still displayed in the UI. The only way I was able to get it to work was by using unicode characters. In this case, the unicode for apostrophe is `\u0027s` , so the string resource now becomes:

```<string name="signup_email_question">What\u0027s your email?</string>```
This is the only way I was able to make it work.
These are all the strings used in the sample app. I had to replace all usages of apostrophes with unicode characters: <https://github.com/KwabenBerko/Spotify-2021-Compose-Multiplatform/blob/main/common/src/commonMain/composeResources/values/strings.xml>

&gt; When escaping the apostrophe with the backslash character
What if you don't escape the apostrophe and just use it as is?

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<@U03GF1WBBBQ> it would be good to update the article

Sorry for the late reply.
Not escaping the apostrophe fails the build with the following error:
`Can not extract resource from com.android.aaptcompiler`

<@UJ456JG2K> 
It seems you're running it on a desktop project.
Can you try building and running on either Android or iOS?

```
kotlin = "2.0.0"
compose = "1.6.10"
agp = "8.2.2"```

<@U03GF1WBBBQ> there shouldn't be the problem!

Interesting :thinking_face: 
So, why does mine fail?

Screenshot 2024-07-23 at 5.02.19 AM.png

I even get an IDE error as well as a build error:

Also, for context, I'm using:
`Android Studio Koala | 2024.1.1 Patch 1`

I don't know. Could you file the issue and attach the reproducer?
<https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/newIssue?project=CMP>

Ticket/issue filed:
<https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/CMP-5791/Not-Escaping-Apostrophe-in-String-Resources-Causes-A-Build-Failure>

and waiting the article update :please-wait: :wink:

Awesome.
Thank you very much!
I will update the article very soon. I will let you know when I do that as well

Article has been updated.
Thank you very much for helping to resolve this. I really appreciate it.