Helge Kreutzmann wrote: > Hello, > sorry if I post an obvious question, but during a recent translation > the maintainer of the package asked me to keep "long lines" (i.e. each > msgstr in one line) because he wanted to control the line breaks in > the programm and not by the translation (i.e. breaking at white > spaces). > > My question: Do line breaks in the msgstr influence the display? With > line breaks I mean > "some text " > "some other text" > (and not explicit ones like \n). The rationale given by the maintainer > can be found below.
No, the line breaks in the pot file are ignored: all strings are concatenated. The above example is equal to "some text some other text". Only with "\n" you get a line break in the resulting string. Cheers Luk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
