POSIX msgfmt and newlines in strings

2022-06-22 Thread Bruno Haible via austin-group-l at The Open Group
https://posix.rhansen.org/p/gettext_draft Line 1067 "Unlike shell command language strings, double-quoted strings in dot-po files cannot contain a literal character." Issue: This sentence should be part of the specification of the dot-po file format. Suggestion: Move this sentence from the APP

Re: POSIX msgfmt and newlines in strings

2022-06-23 Thread Geoff Clare via austin-group-l at The Open Group
Bruno Haible wrote, on 23 Jun 2022: > > https://posix.rhansen.org/p/gettext_draft > Line 1067 > > "Unlike shell command language strings, double-quoted strings in dot-po files > cannot contain a literal character." > > Issue: This sentence should be part of the specification of the dot-po file