[Po4a-devel]Re: [Po4a-commits] po4a/t 02-TransTractors.t,1.8,1.9

[Denis Barbier]

On Sun, Feb 27, 2005 at 05:12:24PM +0100, Nicolas Fran=E7ois wrote:
> Hi,
>=20
> On Sun, Feb 27, 2005 at 04:54:30PM +0100, Denis Barbier wrote:
> > On Sun, Feb 27, 2005 at 03:28:52PM +0000, Nicolas FRAN??OIS wrote:
> > >   * change back non breaking spaces to '\\ ' in the PO files for ma=
n pages.
> >=20
> > I quickly read previous messages but did not realize that this change
> > was needed.  Adding "\\ " is much less natural than a non breaking sp=
ace
> > (at least for those who are used to write this glyph), so can you ple=
ase
> > explain why this conversion was troublesome?
>=20
> Using non breaking spaces by default is troublesome because all encodin=
gs
> don't support this glyph, and thus the generated PO may be invalid in s=
ome
> cases.

Ok, this is indeed troublesome in msgid, but should seldom happen.
Is there a way to keep "\\ " in msgid but convert to non breaking
space in msgstr?

Denis