reassign 368689 po-debconf thanks This is the reply from Bruno Haible:
> Santiago Vila writes: > > Hideki Yamane replies: > > > > debconf-updatepo works "msgmerge -U foo.po template.pot", > > but "-U" or "--update" option doesn't work about word wrapping in > > its po file :( > > Just "msgmerge ja.po templates.pot -o ja.po" works fine. > > > > Then Denis Barbier replies: > > > > I understand now, thanks for explaining. But the problem is that most > > languages prefer reformatting lines, because it is easier to track > > changes. I would like to reassign this bugreport to gettext, and > > ask that a header field be added to PO files so that translators > > can decide that their files should not be reformatted. > > Do you agree with this approach? > > > > and finally Hideki Yamane writes: > > > > It's nice that translators can decide to do or not. > > I'll reassign this bug to gettext. > > It is not clear to me what exactly this is about. May I ask for for > precision? > > - Whether word wrapping _inside the strings_ is done by the translator > (i.e. the translator inserts \n here and there) or whether it is done by > the application (such as a HTML browser or another text rendering engine), > depends on the package/domain, not on the translator. The translator > can guess whether she needs to insert \n by looking whether \n are > present in the msgid. > > - Word wrapping outside the strings is merely a presentation form of the > PO file. The "msgmerge -U" command compares the string contents of > the PO files, ignoring the presentation. It can therefore happen that when > you pass a PO file with line breaks and the PO file to be updated has no > line breaks, no line breaks will be inserted. > Other than that, the --width option of msgcat, msgmerge etc. controls > the line wrapping when writing a PO file. The translator who wants to > have line wrapping to, say, 80 columns can enforce this by running the > PO file through "msgcat --width=80". > > What is the workflow in the Debian tools setting? If a translator wants to > have line wrapping enabled when she receives a PO file, I'd suggest that > you introduce an environment variable that the Debian tools use. Based on this, I consider highly unlikely that this is implemented in the PO format itself and it's supported by gettext, so there is little sense in keeping this as a gettext bug. I'm reassigning this bug back to po-debconf in case the maintainer wants to implement anything around this idea. My recommendation would be to just close this report. Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
