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Re: [l10n] debconf-updatepo, msgmerge and wrapping lines



On Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 11:11:18AM +0200, Nikolai Prokoschenko wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 10:42:15AM +0200, cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis) wrote:
> > > But this line would be split up while displaying it - couldn't the path
> > > get splitted up then? At which points in cdebconf are the line breaks
> > > allowed?
> > cdebconf never sees the line breaks, only the gettext tools do
> 
> I understand that. However, for longer strings, cdebconf would have to
> break them up, so they can appear on the monitor and fit into the
> available horizontal space. Could it happen that cdebconf breaks up a line
> somewhere in the middle of a path?

I don't think so, path larger than screen width are certainly
troublesome.

Denis



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