pofile misparses po files with "Mac" linebreaks

[brennanyoung]

I haven't been able to interpret whether the po format specifies a particular variant of line break.

It would make plenty of sense if "UNIX style" (LF only) was preferred, but this is not mentioned in any of the official docs. Also "DOS style" (CR+LF) is obviously supported by dozens of gettext-related tools. So far, so good.

Anyway, I'm posting this issue after spending far too much time discovering that pofile.js misparses files which use the old Mac style of linebreak (CR only). The interesting thing is that it parses most of the file correctly, but the header seems to get glommed into the first 'true' po entry, so that the header appears as a multiline translator comment. There are various other symptoms concerning this mixup, for example, the first true entry loses its references entirely.

Not sure if it's absolutely crucial that this be fixed, because it's usually easy enough to switch to LF or CR+LF, and Mac OSX defaults to LF these days.

But until or unless a fix appears, I think it would be worth mentioning in the pofile docs. This issue report can act as a kind of documentation for the problem for now.