Translator comments are truncated on export time

[Carlos Perelló Marín]

Here, you can see a messageset with a translator comment that needs more than one line:

https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/breezy/+sources/findutils/+pots/findutils/es/+translate?count=1&offset=16

If you export that .po file, that messageset becomes:

# No ha habido ninguna queja en coreutils, pongamos aquí también los
#: gnulib/lib/quotearg.c:240
msgid "`"
msgstr "«"

and that's broken...

[Dafydd Harries (daf)]

I've just reproduced this, so the bug is still there. Writing a test case would be a good first step in fixing this.

[Данило Шеган (danilo)]

Tested this one with a long three-line comment, and seems to have been fix some time ago, but at least with RF 5199.

[Carlos Perelló Marín (carlos)]

The problem seems to be that the imported comment includes the new line char, when it shouldn't.

We should check first that imports stop doing that and we remove all new lines when storing the comments and then, check that the export is correct.

For reference, Spanish translation for POTMsgSet.id == 663834 in our database is the one that has this problem.

Moved back to confirmed to do more debugging work.

[Данило Шеган (danilo)]

Let me add to this remark above: I tested this specific case, but I probably didn't test a POT, but rather a PO import. Will check further and then either confirm or close this bug.

[Ursula Junque (ursinha)]

This bug was mentioned in stable r9852 <http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~launchpad-pqm/launchpad/stable/revision/9852>