Benno Schulenberg wrote:
> Hi,
>
> In the POT file for bash-3.2 there is one msgid that contains two
> \r characters. Are these carriage returns necessary? If not, it
> would be better to remove them, as they are awkward for translators
> and are causing a mild indigestion on Launchpad at the moment
> (which is Launchpad's fault, but if the ^Ms aren't needed...).
The idea is that malloc/free can be called at any time, by any piece
of code, regardless of the state of the terminal: raw, canonical,
whatever. The intent is that the cursor be placed at column 0 both
before and after printing the message, so it stands alone.
I'm not sure why \r at the beginning and end of a message bothers
translators -- the actual translatable message text remains the same
regardless (and, yes, launchpad's problems are its own).
I may make the message untranslated, as you suggest, but the question
remains: why does it matter?
Chet
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