initscripts

[Simos Xenitellis]

Josep Puigdemont wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On 19/01/06, *A S Alam* <aalam at redhat.com <mailto:aalam at redhat.com>> 
> wrote:
>
>     Josep Puigdemont ਨੇ ਲਿਖਿਆ:
>     > Hi!
>     >
>     > Translating initscripts, I found this:
>     >
>     > #: /etc/rc.d/init.d/diskdump:250
>     > msgid "Saving panic dump from swap partition:\r"
>     >
>     >
>     > My texttools complain that "internationalized messages should not
>     > contain the `\r' escape sequence".
>     >
>     > Should I file a bug, or do you think this is intentional? And if
>     so...
>     > how do I make texttools happy? ;-)
>     >
>     >
>     hi Josep,
>
>     I think that should not make problem with i18n,
>     as I translated with Kbabel and showing no problem for "\r"
>
>     meanwhile, which Tool are u using ? 
>
>
> I use Emacs, but I use to use "msgfmt" to check the po file, and 
> "msgconv" to reformat long lines.
> msgconv is the one that gave me that error message.

"msgfmt" is part of the gettext tools, the basic library 
(http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/) that makes i18n and l10n happen
in most of the open-source projects.
Since msgfmt complains about \r, it would be good to fix this. \r should 
be replaced with \n.

Simos