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diff --git a/gettext-tools/doc/msgfilter.texi b/gettext-tools/doc/msgfilter.texi index 1fae251..61c2f57 100644 --- a/gettext-tools/doc/msgfilter.texi +++ b/gettext-tools/doc/msgfilter.texi @@ -73,6 +73,14 @@ input and writes a modified translation to standard output. A frequently used filter is @samp{sed}. A few particular built-in filters are also recognized. +@table @samp +@item --newline +@opindex --newline@r{, @code{msgfilter} option} +Add newline at the end of each input line and also strip the ending +newline from the output line. + +@end table + @cindex @code{msgfilter} filter and catalog encoding Note: If the filter is not a built-in filter, you have to care about encodings: It is your responsibility to ensure that the @var{filter} can cope @@ -86,13 +94,14 @@ you can first convert the translation catalog to UTF-8 using the locale, by using the @code{LC_ALL} environment variable. @cindex portability problems with @code{sed} -Note: Most translations in a translation catalog don't end with a newline -character. For this reason, it is important that the @var{filter} -recognizes its last input line even if it ends without a newline, and that -it doesn't add an undesired trailing newline at the end. The @samp{sed} -program on some platforms is known to ignore the last line of input if it -is not terminated with a newline. You can use GNU @code{sed} instead; it -does not have this limitation. +Note: Most translations in a translation catalog don't end with a +newline character. For this reason, unless the @code{--newline} +option is used, it is important that the @var{filter} recognizes its +last input line even if it ends without a newline, and that it doesn't +add an undesired trailing newline at the end. The @samp{sed} program on +some platforms is known to ignore the last line of input if it is not +terminated with a newline. You can use GNU @code{sed} instead; it does +not have this limitation. @subsection Useful @var{filter-option}s when the @var{filter} is @samp{sed} |