• Firefox bug: browser doesn't wrap text lines in DDTSS textarea

    From s3v@21:1/5 to All on Mon Feb 3 13:40:02 2020
    Hi,

    recent versions of Firefox are affected by an annoying bug [1] which prevents text
    lines being correctly wrapped in textarea. DDTSS uses textarea to write translations
    but unfortunately these translation lines are not automatically hardwrapped on submitting and a long line is sent to DDTP database.
    Firefox developers appear having little motivations to solve this problem.

    As workaround you should wrap text manually by pressing [ENTER] at the and of each
    line to prevent long lines in package descriptions.
    I've not tested this misbehaviour for different browsers than Firefox, but I suspect this issue affects all Gecko-related browsers. Please give feedback on this
    for the sake of translators.

    You can retrieve lines longer than 85 characters with the command:

      grep -E '^ .{85,}$' Translation-LANG

    where LANG is the language (it, pt, pl..) which you are interested in [2].

    Please note that this issue affects "apt-cache show package" and other tools displaying package descriptions.

    Kind Regards.

    [1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1568313
    [2] http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/sid/main/i18n/

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