Well, it's simply easier to read in a text editor, when the layout of the
msgid is exactly the same as the layout of the msgstr.

Especially when \n has been used a lot....


2013/9/19 Kevin Brubeck Unhammer <[email protected]>

> Dimitris Glezos <[email protected]> writes:
>
> > It's better to save a string in that form, no reason to split a string
> > if the splitting isn't doing anything.
> >
> > Unless I misunderstood something, I'm not seeing why Gedit would make
> > it harder to translate a string like that. If it does, maybe a bug
> > report on Gedit would be a good idea..
>
> The reason to split is to keep lines short and readable, especially for
> people with small screens (less of an argument now than back when the
> gettext format was first created, I guess). I believe many offline po
> editors do this splitting.
>
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> Kevin Brubeck Unhammer
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