2012/8/15 Mark Morgan Lloyd <[email protected]>: > Michael Van Canneyt wrote: >> >> On Wed, 15 Aug 2012, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: >> >>> I note from >>> http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Getting_translation_strings_right#The_format.28.29_function >>> that "Since format() does not interpret escaped control characters" is >>> struck out and "In the current lazarus version, \n and \t in translated >>> strings are replaced by newline and tab" is appended. >>> >>> Does this refer to the Lazarus IDE's handling of i18n candidates, or is >>> it saying that \n etc. handling has been added to Format()? In the latter >>> case, what (FPC) version does this apply to? >> >> >> Format does not handle escape sequences. >> >> Escape sequences are for C-style languages. Pascal does not need it, it >> has #NN >> support. > > > Thanks, so the text is saying that this is an IDE feature.
Maybe a feature of the function that loads the po file and uses it to translate the resource strings. This is part of the LCL, not the IDE, IIRC. Vincent -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
