I'm not familiar with XLIFF, but I wonder how you distinguish there
between \n and <br> (if you want your paragraph to be on an html page
as opposed to a console or some other output. Properties files at
least allow you to distinguish between the two.

If I remember correctly, XLIFF support is planned for 2.0.

On Feb 26, 12:19 pm, jbdhl <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 1) GWT's i18n can't be used as is, since the interfaces are meant to
> > be used at compile-time and the actual text from the properties files
> > gets put into the js/html files.
>
> So there is no way to re-use the plural-technology in the Messages
> class on the server side? Are we really forced to use two different
> technologies then? E.g. the GWT methods on the client side and gettext
> on the server? This is kind of ugly IMHO.
>
> > prop2 = first line of prop2 \n \
> > second line of prop2 \n \
> > third line of prop2
>
> But then translators (which are non-technicans) have to use \n when
> breaking lines? Is that really the only way of doing it?
> I look forward to the XLIFF support in GWT as these property files are
> very limited in many ways.
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