Re: String freeze break in gedit

[danilo gnome org (Danilo Åegan)]

Today at 20:17, Hendrik Richter wrote:

> All of these strings contain the HTML code representation of "<" or ">".
> In de.po we've got these five untranslated strings, e.g. "Brackets <>"
> and also commented out, out-dated translated strings like "Brackets
> &lt;&gt;". I guess it's maybe some error or different behavior between
> various intltool versions, some converting XML entities to a valid
> representation and some not?

Exactly.  intltool between 0.28 and 0.30 converted those from &lt; to
<, etc., but this turned out to break a whole lot of other things
(like tag nesting: eg. how do you convert back things like "<b>symbol
&lt;</b>" which becomes "<b>symbol <</b>"?) so we turned back to the
old behaviour.

Cheers,
Danilo