Do people still open PO files in text editors?
{picard-facepalm}
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On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 4:01 AM, Pjotr Vertaalt <[email protected]>wrote:
> 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
>>
>> Sent from my emacs
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