On Sat, Apr 09, 2005 at 01:25:55PM +0200, Nicolas François wrote:
Hello,
I would like to resume this discussion.
First, a small (and maybe biased) summary:
Jordi raised two issues regarding non-breaking spaces generated by po4a in
th PO:
* Using them in ASCII PO is not valid
* non breaking spaces are not distinguishable from spaces
(this is more an editor issue, IMHO)
To fix this, an option with-non_breaking_spaces (disabled by default) was
added.
Then Denis indicated that the POT should be unique (which is not if a
language choose to enable and another one to disable this option).
I propose to remove the with-non_breaking_spaces option (and
with-hyphen_to_minus).This should solve the above points.
The only drawback I can see is that translators will have to be aware that
"\\ " in a msgid is a non-breaking space (they will be able to use real
non-breaking spaces in their translations if they want).
Do you agree with the removal of these options?
I personally agree. It makes sense. You may want to document the fact that
non-breaking spaces are still allowed in translations.
Thanks for your time,
Mt.