Newlines / pesky details

[Brian Sutherland]

On Sat, Jun 04, 2005 at 10:54:28AM -0400, Thomas Mills Hinkle wrote:
> Every time I grab the latest PO files from rosetta, I have to go
> through and fix 3 or 4 newlines for a number of the files to prevent
> the following type of error:
> 
> de_DE.po:1191: `msgid' and `msgstr' entries do not both begin with '\n'
> de_DE.po:1198: `msgid' and `msgstr' entries do not both begin with '\n'
> de_DE.po:1603: `msgid' and `msgstr' entries do not both end with '\n'
> de_DE.po:1714: `msgid' and `msgstr' entries do not both end with '\n'
> de_DE.po:1797: `msgid' and `msgstr' entries do not both end with '\n'
> msgfmt: found 5 fatal errors
> 
> It would be nice if rosetta could automatically fix this sort of
> thing, making user entries agree with the translated strings in terms
> of newlines at start and end.

There is some more info here:
https://launchpad.ubuntu.com/malone/bugs/710

and here:
https://launchpad.ubuntu.com/malone/bugs/709

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Brian Sutherland

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