[bug-gettext] [bug #44098] Check strings for common problems

URL: Summary: Check strings for common problems Project: GNU gettext Submitted by: drbob Submitted on: Tue 27 Jan 2015 10:50:34 GMT Category: None Severity: 3 - Normal

[bug-gettext] [bug #44098] Check strings for common problems

Follow-up Comment #1, bug #44098 (project gettext): Thanks, that's an interesting idea, but I don't think msgfmt is the right place to add those checks. The command is supposed to take a PO file rather than a POT file as its input, and it would be annoying if the warnings were issued when process

[bug-gettext] [PATCH] msgfilter: Add --newline option

The filter program was supposed to handle input without ending with a newline character. This was causing portability problems with standard text processing programs on some platforms (BSD Sed, for instance) and not friendly towards POSIX, where a "text file" is required to have an ending newline.