Bruno Haible wrote, on 23 Jun 2022: > > https://posix.rhansen.org/p/gettext_draft > Line 1031 > > "C-language escape sequences in message strings shall be processed as > specified for character string literals in the ISO C standard ..." > > Issue: The way this is written, it is not possible to write, in a dot-po file: > msgid "Program terminated.\n" > > Suggestion: > This sentence should be extended to hold for *all* string literals in a > dot-po file. So that C escape sequences can be used in particular > in message_identifier (line 901) and untranslated_string_plural (line 902). > > Both GNU msgfmt and Solaris msgfmt do it like this.
In today's teleconference we struck out the word "message", so that it reads: "C-language escape sequences in strings shall be processed ..." -- Geoff Clare <g.cl...@opengroup.org> The Open Group, Apex Plaza, Forbury Road, Reading, RG1 1AX, England
