Best practice for including line breaks in long strings?

[JohnMcLear]

Just wondering what you guys recommend to do? I have a lot of TOS / T&C licenses we translate down and I want to keep them as individual strings in my JSON files if poss :)

[Nikerabbit]

Splitting per paragraph would be beneficial for translators as well. But you can use \n inside the strings, it just gets very ugly to edit them manually.

[JohnMcLear]

\n doesn't work @Nikerabbit - Are you sure \n is the right approach? It makes sense but it's weird that it doesn't work!

[Nikerabbit]

Are you expecting the newlines to appear in rendered HTML? That won't work. You need to add <br>s or <p> wrappings to the string or do something like $dom.append( htmlescape( $.i18n( key ) ).replace( / /\n/, '<br>' ) ).

Or just split the paragraphs in the file :)

[JohnMcLear]

Yes I was hoping the newlines to appear in rendered HTML.. I'm being totally dumb here.. Can you provide a HTML / JSON / JS file showing example? I tried adding
to the string and no dice with that.. I can't imagine I have to do a replace on language change, that seems far too clunky just to add line breaks!

[Nikerabbit]

It is very clunky indeed, hence my persistent recommendation to use separate messages per paragraph :)