Newline character breaks translation

[charger]

I’m on PW 3.0.184 and PHP 7.3.3 and have an issue when I insert a \n into a translation string. The string shows up correctly in the language translator in the backend. However, if I translate the string and then echo it via template file, it won’t return the translated string but its default value. As soon as I remove the \n out of the translation string, the translated value is correctly returned. I used the example from the docs to test:

$out = __("It's time for you \nto get to the party.");  // good 

Can someone confirm this?
 

[horst]

I cannot find any example with newline character in the docs? Do I oversee something?

I thought that escape characters are not supported by the translation. If I'm right, maybe it should be written explicitly in the docs too.

I think the right usage is or can be like this:

// use %s with sprintf()
$out = sprintf(__("It's time for you %sto get to the party."), "\n");

 

[charger]

OK, will try to use variables then to insert the newline character. But it’s definitely in the docs. See the attached screenshot.

[horst]

1 hour ago, charger said:

But it’s definitely in the docs. See the attached screenshot.

Ok, I see. Then you should post an issue on github. 

[Ivan Gretsky]

Hey, @charger!

I just faced the same problem recently. You can make it work like you expect by using single quotes like this:

$out = __('It\'s time for you \nto get to the party.');

Though I would love to see it work with double quotes too)

[charger]

That I noticed too. But in my case I have to use double quotes as I also use variables within the string. Tried every combination I could think of ?

[Ivan Gretsky]

Use single quotes + sprintf. That's what I did. Read the docs about placeholders.

[charger]

When using single quotes \n is not interpreted as newline character.

Btw. GitHub issue was created.

[Ivan Gretsky]

Ok, I think I did a str_replace:

str_replace('\n', '<br>', $string);

And added a thumbs up for your issue)