Re: [Freeciv-Dev] patch: registry improvements (PR#98)

[David Perez Serrada <dperezs@xxxxxxx>]

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On Fri, 20 Aug 1999, David Pfitzner wrote:

> Well, now I'm not sure...
> 
> Incidently, I assume that:
> 
> : msgid "Hello this is"
> :       "freeciv version 2.3"
> 
> would become as output: "Hello this isfreeciv version 2.3"
> and so should really be, eg  (assuming the lines were longer)
> 
> : msgid "Hello this is "
> :       "freeciv version 2.3"
> 
> or
> 
> : msgid "Hello this is"
> :       " freeciv version 2.3"
> 
> right?
Yes... that is the point. This is one of the reason why I prefer
double-quoting of all lines (another is that this is C complain, and of
course it give you more control over the format of strings)


> (Or if the registry keeps the newlines itself, on stripping them 
> out later you could convert embedded newlines to whitespace :-)
But... What happend if you want to put more spaces, or a tab?

                      Ta otra....        David


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