PHP: HTML inside gettext function string

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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
because I need to ") ``` should be: ``` #: htdocs/index.php:8 msgid "My long text that I
because I need to" msgstr "Translation needs different
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 "), '
') ```

Accepted Answer

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...

PHP: HTML inside gettext function string

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