Re: problematic \r in msgid

2007-11-25 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Chet Ramey wrote: > I'm not sure why \r at the beginning and end of a message bothers > translators They don't really. So if the \r must be there, leave it in. It's just that in general: the fewer control characters in a string, the better. Less clutter, less room for error. (What I'd really

Re: problematic \r in msgid

2007-11-24 Thread Paul Jarc
Chet Ramey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The idea is that malloc/free can be called at any time, by any piece > of code, regardless of the state of the terminal: raw, canonical, > whatever. The intent is that the cursor be placed at column 0 both > before and after printing the message, so it stand

Re: problematic \r in msgid

2007-11-24 Thread Chet Ramey
Benno Schulenberg wrote: > Hi, > > In the POT file for bash-3.2 there is one msgid that contains two > \r characters. Are these carriage returns necessary? If not, it > would be better to remove them, as they are awkward for translators > and are causing a mild indigestion on Launchpad at the

problematic \r in msgid

2007-11-22 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Hi, In the POT file for bash-3.2 there is one msgid that contains two \r characters. Are these carriage returns necessary? If not, it would be better to remove them, as they are awkward for translators and are causing a mild indigestion on Launchpad at the moment (which is Launchpad's fault,