[Lazarus] i18n and Format()

[Vincent Snijders]

2012/8/15 Mark Morgan Lloyd <markMLl.lazarus at telemetry.co.uk>:
> Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, 15 Aug 2012, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
>>
>>> I note from
>>> http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Getting_translation_strings_right#The_format.28.29_function
>>> that "Since format() does not interpret escaped control characters" is
>>> struck out and "In the current lazarus version, \n and \t in translated
>>> strings are replaced by newline and tab" is appended.
>>>
>>> Does this refer to the Lazarus IDE's handling of i18n candidates, or is
>>> it saying that \n etc. handling has been added to Format()? In the latter
>>> case, what (FPC) version does this apply to?
>>
>>
>> Format does not handle escape sequences.
>>
>> Escape sequences are for C-style languages. Pascal does not need it, it
>> has #NN
>> support.
>
>
> Thanks, so the text is saying that this is an IDE feature.

Maybe a feature of the function that loads the po file and uses it to
translate the resource strings. This is part of the LCL, not the IDE,
IIRC.

Vincent