Salut Mathieu,
Mathieu Lirzin <mathieu.lirzin@openmailbox.org> skribis:
Note that all translation efforts are handled by the Translation
Project, so make sure to work in that framework to avoid duplicated
work:
There’s nothing wrong here: it’s just the normal syntax for multi-line
strings (info "(gettext) PO Files"):
When the time comes to write multi-line strings, one should not use
escaped newlines. Instead, a closing quote should follow the last
character on the line to be continued, and an opening quote should
resume the string at the beginning of the following PO file line. For
example:
msgid ""
"Here is an example of how one might continue a very long string\n"
"for the common case the string represents multi-line output.\n"
In this example, the empty string is used on the first line, to allow
better alignment of the ‘H’ from the word ‘Here’ over the ‘f’ from the
word ‘for’. In this example, the ‘msgid’ keyword is followed by three
strings, which are meant to be concatenated. Concatenating the empty
string does not change the resulting overall string, but it is a way for
us to comply with the necessity of ‘msgid’ to be followed by a string on
the same line, while keeping the multi-line presentation left-justified,
as we find this to be a cleaner disposition. The empty string could
have been omitted, but only if the string starting with ‘Here’ was
promoted on the first line, right after ‘msgid’.(1) It was not really
necessary either to switch between the two last quoted strings
immediately after the newline ‘\n’, the switch could have occurred after
_any_ other character, we just did it this way because it is neater.
So I’m closing this bug. Let me know if there’s something I overlooked.
Thanks,
Ludo’.
