[Etoys] Context comment in POs too long for Pootle
Takashi Yamamiya
tak at metatoys.org
Tue Nov 27 13:07:16 EST 2007
> Something I did notice in the Etoys PO is that the comment is
> basically one very long, continuous string without any
> whitespace. A simple comma-space ', ' separator would suffice to
> allow IE to do a better job...
I have removed all spaces because a Gettext tool (like msgmerge)
splits the line if there is a white space in a long comment.
It made me difficult to take a diff. This is a nasty reason though.
> I just verified it, and the lack of whitespace is the culprit
> (look for 'Stop' in TamTamEdit.activity) and the result is:
> - Opera = fixed width, variable height = Good
> - Firefox = fixed width, variable height = Good
> - MS-IE = pseudo-fixed width, variable height = almost good
> (still bases the 'minimum column width' on the
> 'maximum non-whitespace string length')
>
> Solution? Use a better browser? ;)
Well, The best is to fix Pootle...
Cheers,
- Takashi
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