Troubles with commas

Post by **Viliam** » December 1st, 2004, 5:06 pm

silene wrote:neither ~ nor * nor ^ is usable in fact; we are a bit short on available characters...

Just out of curiosity - which symbols have special meanings in PO files, and what is the meaning? I guess it would be nice to see them all listed in one place.

silene · Post by **silene** » December 3rd, 2004, 8:14 pm

Viliam wrote:Just out of curiosity - which symbols have special meanings in PO files, and what is the meaning?

The only symbol that has a special meaning with respect to .po files is "^", the prefix symbol. All the other symbols have a special meaning with respect to font rendering or text formatting though. Even some invisible characters have a special meaning (for example \t is the code for the color of the 9th team, rather unfortunate choice). The *only* remaining symbol is "=", so it is presumably the one that will be used instead of ",".
For the meaning of all these symbols, you will have to peruse through the code.

Viliam wrote:I guess it would be nice to see them all listed in one place.

I won't fall for this trap...

Lim_Dul wrote:Must it be a single character?

As it stands, it must be a single character in the lower end of the ascii subset (the part of the unicode characters that stand on one single byte).

silene · Post by **silene** » December 11th, 2004, 8:36 pm

Commas don't need to be escaped anymore. The new column separator is "=". I have removed the corresponding entry from the Wiki.