Original report and full analysis is in https://salsa.debian.org/manpages-l10n-team/manpages-l10n/-/issues/21 Summary: po4a produces: "CW<\n" " $ line 1\n" " $ line 2\n" While the following needs to be produced: msgstr "" "CW<\n" " $ line 1\n" "CW<\n" " $ line 2\n"