GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 120584
Can replace "\n" in msgid or msgstr as newline, similar to replacing space with middledot
Last modified: 2007-08-28 17:32:12 UTC
Currently, "\n" in msgid and msgstr are shown as is. It can be made more intuitive by replacing "\n" with a symbol that denotes newline, then open a new line for displaying remaining strings.
here we need to consider that is not only a visualization problem for the "\n" but also that we need a simple way to put it in the string. I think that the best solution is to let the newline appear in the messages as escape code and in the same way use the escape code to insert the newline in the translated message. Another solution could be using a special simbol but for this we need to add a special shortcut to gtranslator. for me the first solution is the best one. any other idea ?
See http://live.gnome.org/gtranslator for that. IMHO, when the user presses enter or tab then the escaped sequence should be added, but not displayed -- just display text with a new line or a tabulation. If the user chooses to show blank spaces as special characters, then show something like the return key or an right arrow.
This problem has been fixed in the development version. The fix will be available in the next major software release. Thank you for your bug report.