[xliff-tools] Another question on PO and XLIFF

Asgeir Frimannsson asgeirf at redhat.com
Mon May 2 20:44:22 PDT 2005


First of all, sorry for flooding your inbox Yves, 

(You might [happily?] not have received all messages though, as it seems some 
are replies only to the mailing list)

On Tue, 3 May 2005 13:14, Yves Savourel wrote:
> As Asgeir pointed out, this is beyond PO and happens in many software
> messages. I was just wondering if we had a specific recommendation for PO.
> I guess it seems to be the same as for other formats: each tool may end up
> having its own way of trying to address the issue.

I reccon if we start mixing these approaches, it would cause a bit of pain for 
translators, as they some time would have to insert newlines, and sometimes 
not. Hence, it would be beneficial if all representation guides would give 
the same recommendation on the issue. 

cheers,
asgeir


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