New lines in XLIFF exports

Unity Engine
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1

I think the exported entries in XLIFF should contain:

xml:space="preserve"

Otherwise the new lines are deleted upon working with the XLIFF.

2

I have tested that with Weblate and adding this attribute has fixed my issue. New lines are exported / imported correctly.

I just made a quick and dirty fix in xliff1.2.cs

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3

Awesome. Can you share some steps I can do to reproduce the original problem so I can make sure its fixed?

4

Yeah,

  1. create localization entry in string table with line breaks:

string```

2. export string table to XLIFF (1.2 or 2.0)
3. check exported file for the line breaks
- if the line breaks are just present (without any conversion to the escaped values), xml:space="preserve" need to be added on the trans-unit tag
- or we need to escape the line breaks in the epxorted file

I am not sure which solution is better.
5

And I am still not sure whether the import is working well with the new lines as I see some artifacts in the string table internal file after the import:

  1. Some of the line breaks were converted into ‘\n’

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2) But some entries were not and contain even more line breaks that in the xliff file. But it looks OK in the Unity … isn’t that strange?

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Is that OK?

6

Thats strange. It may just be that XLIFF and Unity Serializer use different formats.
Could you please file a bug report so we can look into it and make sure the preserve is done correctly?

Edit: I created a bug for the issue Unity Issue Tracker - [Localization] exported XLIFF files are missing xml:space="preserve" element

7

Sry, I haven’t noticed you have created the bug report.
This one is from me: https://fogbugz.unity3d.com/default.asp?1342014_svk3565destdq3jd

8

No problem this should help as I was struggling to reproduce the issue.

9

It’s not the issue in Unity you can observe. It’s just the “XLIFF standard” compliance - either escape new lines or add XML attribute to the export (recommended).
Thank you!