[fpc-pascal] Resourcestring and multi-line text

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

Marco van de Voort wrote:
> In our previous episode, Mark Morgan Lloyd said:
>> When putting text into a resourcestring, for example for i18n, what is 
>> best practice for multiline blocks?
>>
>> I'm thinking of, for example, explanatory text that goes on a page in a 
>> wizard-style set of dialogues, or a description that appears in a pane 
>> when a tree node is clicked.
> 
> Afaik dxgettext and its editor support this. IIRC they use \n though.

Thanks Marco, noted: I don't consider \n to be a dirty word, and have a 
modified Format() that understands it. My SNMP to Pascal translator 
inserts LineEnding in constant definitions which works OK, so presumably 
this would also work with resourcestrings.

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