[bug-gettext] [bug #47801] Feature Request: a switch for escaping unprintable and zero-width chars

[anonymous]

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                 Summary: Feature Request: a switch for escaping unprintable
and zero-width chars
                 Project: GNU gettext
            Submitted by: None
            Submitted on: Thu 28 Apr 2016 08:14:16 PM UTC
                Category: None
                Severity: 3 - Normal
              Item Group: None
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any

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Details:

GNOME uses some soft hyphens in their msgids to workaround some line-breaking
issues. Unfortunately, these characters are invisible in Unicode-conforming
editors without a `msgcat -E` pass.

It would be great to see gettext adding escapes for specific
unprintable/zero-width chars. (A switch that takes char ranges can be even
better customizable-wise... Just saying.)

See also https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=765778.




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