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