fix(): unicode chars were removed from .po files when extracting (#1125)

packages/conf/index.d.ts

@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 import type { GeneratorOptions } from "@babel/core";
 
+export const UNICODE_REGEX: RegExp
 export declare type CatalogFormat = "lingui" | "minimal" | "po" | "csv" | "po-gettext";
 export type CatalogFormatOptions = {
     origins?: boolean;

packages/conf/src/index.ts

@@ -2,10 +2,11 @@ import type { GeneratorOptions } from "@babel/core"
 import path from "path"
 import fs from "fs"
 import chalk from "chalk"
-import { Loader, cosmiconfigSync } from "cosmiconfig"
+import { cosmiconfigSync } from "cosmiconfig"
 import { multipleValidOptions, validate } from "jest-validate"
-import get from "lodash.get"
-
+// This regex will detect if a string contains unicode chars, when they're we should interpolate them
+// why? because platforms like react native doesn't parse them, just doing a JSON.parse makes them UTF-8 friendly
+export const UNICODE_REGEX = /\\u[a-fA-F0-9]{4}|\\x[a-fA-F0-9]{2}/g;
 export type CatalogFormat = "lingui" | "minimal" | "po" | "csv"
 
 export type CatalogFormatOptions = {

packages/core/src/context.ts

@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@ import { CompiledMessage, Locales } from "./i18n"
 import { date, number } from "./formats"
 import { isString, isFunction } from "./essentials"
 
+export const UNICODE_REGEX = /\\u[a-fA-F0-9]{4}|\\x[a-fA-F0-9]{2}/g;
+
 const defaultFormats = (
   locale,
   locales,
@@ -111,7 +113,7 @@ export function interpolate(
     }
 
     const result = formatMessage(translation)
-    if (isString(result) && /\\u[a-fA-F0-9]{4}/g.test(result)) return JSON.parse(`"${result.trim()}"`)
+    if (isString(result) && UNICODE_REGEX.test(result)) return JSON.parse(`"${result.trim()}"`)
     if (isString(result)) return result.trim()
     return result
   }

packages/core/src/i18n.ts

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-import { interpolate } from "./context"
+import { interpolate, UNICODE_REGEX } from "./context"
 import { isString, isFunction } from "./essentials"
 import { date, number } from "./formats"
 import * as icu from "./dev"
@@ -193,7 +193,7 @@ export class I18n extends EventEmitter<Events> {
 
 
     // hack for parsing unicode values inside a string to get parsed in react native environments
-    if (isString(translation) && /\\u[a-fA-F0-9]{4}/g.test(translation)) return JSON.parse(`"${translation}"`) as string;
+    if (isString(translation) && UNICODE_REGEX.test(translation)) return JSON.parse(`"${translation}"`) as string;
     if (isString(translation)) return translation
 
     return interpolate(

packages/macro/src/macroJs.test.ts

@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ describe("js macro", () => {
       ])
     })
 
-    it("message with unicode chars is interpreted by babel", () => {
+    it("message with unicode \\u chars is interpreted by babel", () => {
       const macro = createMacro()
       const exp = parseExpression('t`Message \\u0020`')
       const tokens = macro.tokenizeTemplateLiteral(exp)
@@ -92,6 +92,19 @@ describe("js macro", () => {
       ])
     })
 
+    it("message with unicode \\x chars is interpreted by babel", () => {
+      const macro = createMacro()
+      const exp = parseExpression('t`Bienvenue\\xA0!`')
+      const tokens = macro.tokenizeTemplateLiteral(exp)
+      expect(tokens).toEqual([
+        {
+          type: "text",
+          // Looks like an empty space, but it isn't 
+          value: 'Bienvenue !',
+        },
+      ])
+    })
+
     it("message with double scaped literals it's stripped", () => {
       const macro = createMacro()
       const exp = parseExpression('t\`Passing \\`${argSet}\\` is not supported.\`')

packages/macro/src/macroJs.ts

@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 import * as R from "ramda"
 import * as babelTypes from "@babel/types"
 import { NodePath } from "@babel/traverse"
+import { UNICODE_REGEX } from "@lingui/conf"
 
 import ICUMessageFormat from "./icu"
 import { zip, makeCounter } from "./utils"
@@ -265,7 +266,7 @@ export default class MacroJs {
         quasis: R.map((text: babelTypes.TemplateElement) => {
           // Don't output tokens without text.
           // if it's an unicode we keep the cooked value because it's the parsed value by babel (without unicode chars)
-          const value = /\\u[a-fA-F0-9]{4}/g.test(text.value.raw) ? text.value.cooked : text.value.raw
+          const value = UNICODE_REGEX.test(text.value.raw) ? text.value.cooked : text.value.raw
           if (value === "") return null
 
           return {

packages/macro/src/macroJsx.ts

@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 import * as R from "ramda"
 import * as babelTypes from "@babel/types"
 import { NodePath } from "@babel/traverse"
+import { UNICODE_REGEX } from "@lingui/conf"
 
 import ICUMessageFormat from "./icu"
 import { zip, makeCounter } from "./utils"
@@ -231,7 +232,7 @@ export default class MacroJSX {
           R.evolve({
             quasis: R.map((text: babelTypes.TemplateElement) => {
               // Don"t output tokens without text.
-              const value = /\\u[a-fA-F0-9]{4}/g.test(text.value.raw) ? text.value.cooked : text.value.raw
+              const value = UNICODE_REGEX.test(text.value.raw) ? text.value.cooked : text.value.raw
               if (value === "") return null
 
               return this.tokenizeText(this.clearBackslashes(value))