Bug#225324: gtranslator: Need to add space before every newline.

[Tapio Lehtonen]

Package: gtranslator
Version: 1.0-3
Severity: wishlist

I wish gtranslator would check there is a space before every newline
in the msgstr (except in the last line). Seems msgmerge or some other
program may reformat the msgstr, and it combines words.

Example to clarify:

I write originally:

"... the cow jumped"
"over the moon."

and it becomes 

"... the cow jumpedover"
"the moon."

In other words msgmerge just removes newline, when it should also add a space. 

I know this is more bug in msgmerge, but there seems to be no hope of
getting a fix there, so pretty please if gtranslator could add the
space before a newline, like this:

"... the cow jumped "
"over the moon."

msgmerge could not mess things up. 

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux peli 2.4.20 #1 SMP Sat Jan 18 12:42:10 EET 2003 i686
Locale: LANG="fi_FI", LC_CTYPE=fi_FI@euro (ignored: LC_ALL set to "fi_FI")

Versions of packages gtranslator depends on:
ii  bonobo-activation           1:2.4.0-3    Transitional package
ii  libart-2.0-2                2.3.16-1     Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii  libatk1.0-0                 1.4.1-1      The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libbonobo-activation4       1:2.4.0-3    Transitional package
ii  libbonobo2-0                2.4.2-1      Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libbonoboui2-0              2.4.0-4      The Bonobo UI library
ii  libc6                       2.3.2.ds1-10 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libgconf2-4                 2.4.0.1-2    GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglib2.0-0                2.2.3-1      The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome2-0                 2.4.0-4      The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii  libgnomecanvas2-0           2.4.0-1      A powerful object-oriented display
ii  libgnomeui-0                2.4.0.1-5    The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgnomevfs2-0              2.4.1-4      The GNOME virtual file-system libr
ii  libgnomevfs2-common         2.4.1-4      The GNOME virtual file-system libr
ii  libgtk2.0-0                 2.2.4-2      The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  liblinc1                    2:1.0.3-4    library to simplify creating netwo
ii  liborbit2                   1:2.8.2-1.1  Libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpango1.0-0               1.2.5-2      Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpopt0                    1.7-3        lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  libxml2                     2.6.2-1      GNOME XML library
ii  scrollkeeper                0.3.12-3     A free electronic cataloging syste
ii  xlibs                       4.2.1-12.1   X Window System client libraries
ii  zlib1g                      1:1.1.4-16   compression library - runtime

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