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Over-long msgstr not line wrapped when setting --width #1266
Description
A .po file containing the following translation
msgid "Lorem Ipsum is"
msgstr "Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industrystandard"will not be line-wrapped with this command:
pybabel update \
-w 120 \
-i messages.pot \
-d .even though the msgstr is >120 characters. The line will even get unwrapped if it was wrapped before like so:
msgstr ""
"Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industrystandard"
This behaviour can lead to vslavik/poedit#922.
This issue may be linked to #787 ?
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SlowMo24 commentedon Jun 12, 2026
This may be related to translate/translate#6249 (comment) in case they both use the same underlying library to enforce line length.
ub3dqy commentedon Nov 1, 2026
@SlowMo24 This still reproduces on
master(ecf1da8):width=120writes a 125-character line. A fix is prepared for singular, plural, context and obsolete entries; it also preserves the original text when wrapping. 341 local checks passed.Would you be willing to pay for a tested fix and pull request? If so, what budget would work?
Dima Mak / ub3dqy