Re: [bug-mailutils] NLS status

[Sergey Poznyakoff]

On Fri, 27 Dec 2002 21:20:49 +0200 Sergey Poznyakoff (sic) wrote:

> 2) Split the strings containing \v in the following manner:
> 
> N_("GNU dotlock -- lock mail spool files")
>   "\v"
> N_("Returns 0 on success, 3 if the locking the file fails because"
>    " it's already locked, and 1 if some other kind of error
>   occurred.");

It's OK but it doesn't work :^) Exactly for the reasons I mentioned:
gettext receives a single string "GNU dotlock ... \vReturns ..." but
the .mo file has two msgids for it, and of course neither is found.

OK to fallback to method 1 (preserving \v as is)?

Regards,
Sergey