PHP: HTML inside gettext function string

Question

I'm somewhat of confused. As far as I knew every text in a gettext function is used as msgid

So this one:

_("My long text that I <br> because I need to ")

should be:

#: htdocs/index.php:8
msgid "My long text that I <br> because I need to"
msgstr "Translation needs different <br> inside because russian is different"

I just can't find any documentation that gettext() or _() strips html tags out.

Should I be replacing it like this? And why?

sprintf(_("My long text that I %s because I need to "), '<br>')

Michal Čihař · Accepted Answer · 2012-11-16 12:38:45Z

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Both would work okay, gettext does not string anything out of the messags. You might however want to not include HTML in translations to make translators life easier - it is easier to just translate string and don't have to care about HTML markup. Of course sometimes it is not really possible...

answered Nov 16, 2012 at 12:38

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spankmaster79 Over a year ago

the problem is, that it actually filters my html tags. So the msgid is msgid "My long text that I because I need to"

Michal Čihař Over a year ago

What do you use for extracting messages? We use standard xgettext at phpMyAdmin and it keeps html correctly

spankmaster79 Over a year ago

We use PoEdit for Mac and i'm still searching why HTML gets ripped

Michal Čihař Over a year ago

And what do you use for extracting messages from PHP files?

Michal Čihař Over a year ago

You can try running xgettext manually if that differs from what you get inside PoEdit.

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