String Freeze Update

Enrico Forestieri forenr at lyx.org
Sun Oct 22 17:34:13 UTC 2023


On Sun, Oct 22, 2023 at 01:22:05PM +0200, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote:
> 
>Am Sonntag, dem 22.10.2023 um 12:33 +0200 schrieb Dan:
>> Just for the record and out of curiosity, what was the problem with
>> that string? I see you just added a line break HTML element to it,
>> and suddenly it appears in the POT file. Has something to do with QT
>> or with Gettext?
>>
>> Will appreciate a brief explanation, danke.
>
>For reasons I have not explored, messages with line breaks (\n) do not
>make it into the po files. It might be our own scripts's fault, I don't
>know.

Instead of "<br>" you can also use the entity "&#x0a;". The difference 
is that this is directly replaced by lyx_pot.py to "\n" so that Qt will 
not use the html parser simply for introducing a newline char.

-- 
Enrico


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