I sent this e-mail directly to help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, but it looks
like it got lost. So I post it to gnu.emacs.help again.

Hey,

I hope there are some emacs users who occasionally do translating too.
Anyway I have some misunderstanding with emacs po-mode.

In emacs when I translate the following string, it puts it all into
one line:
Code:

msgid ""
"If enabled, closing Sonata will minimize it to the system tray. Note
that "
"it's currently impossible to detect if there actually is a system
tray, so "
"only check this if you have one."
msgstr ""
"Kui lubatud, Sonata minimeerib end süsteemsesse salve. Kahjuks hetkel
on võimatu tuvastada, kas süsteemne salv on ka olemas, niiet luba
ainult siis, kui tead, et su töölaual on salv."

turakas@gmail.com wrote:

This is an expected behaviour (see gettext manual, 8.3.4):

«Right now, in PO mode, strings are single line or multi-line. A string
goes multi-line if and only if it has _embedded_ newlines…»

If you need to just _wrap_ long single-line `msgstr` contents, use
`po-wrap` function described here:
http://www.gnu.org/software/trans-coord/manual/gnun/html_node/New-Translation.ht....
It has to process the whole file, though.

I've already pointed out in `gnu.utils.bug` that `po-wrap` function is
worth including in po-mode (at least until normalization issues stated
in gettext manual are resolved).

Thanks for you answer. Since I can't speak lisp, I didn't know I
needed to use M-x po-wrap.

But I have another question too. It is related to emacs po-mode, so I
post it to this thread.
I have a string:

msgid "Search:\t"

There is that TAB space (\t). When I insert \t manually, emacs writes \
\t:

msgstr "Otsi:\\t"

How can I make emacs write only \t so my translation looks like that:

msgstr "Otsi:\t"

mihkel

turakas@gmail.com wrote:

This seems to do the same as just writing \t.

turakas@gmail.com wrote:

Insert raw tabulation instead of \t in msgstr: C-q TAB.
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Happy Hacking.

This one works. Thanks again.