Poedit does not preserve comments above msgid ""

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Poedit does not preserve comments above msgid "" #827

Closed rillig closed 11 months ago

rillig commented 11 months ago

https://translationproject.org/PO-files/de/e2fsprogs-1.46.6-rc1.de.po has a big block of comments above the initial msgid, explaining how to translate this particular domain:

#.  %S      backup superblock
#.  %X  <num>   hexadecimal format
#.
msgid ""
msgstr ""

When I open that file with Poedit 3.4.1 and save it, this comment gets lost.

vslavik commented 11 months ago

(Specifically, it's only the #. portion - i.e. the extracted-comments - that is lost, the translator-comments above with with copyright and authorship information are preserved.)

vslavik commented 11 months ago

Handling of this file is still not perfect after the above commits, some trailing whitespace is still stripped and some lines reformatted. But that's a more involved fix.