ASP.Net MVC: Localized texts with new line?

Question

I've an Asp.Net MVC 3 website, which will be localized.

I've several resx files which contains my texts, and I've in my views some

@My.NameSpace.Through.My.LocalizationFile.Key

But I can't make it represent the new line.

I tried:

• Shift+enter: I've got the new line in the resource file, but not in my browser
• \r\n : I see the \r\n in my browser
• \n : Same
• <br/> : I see the <br/> in my text

So what should I do to have a new line?

Edit: I know that I could use Html.Raw, but I just can't ask to translators to put html code in their translation.

Answer 1

To be honest, I know it's not the nicest thing in the world, but it's fool-proof and it means your translators don't have to put any code in their translations:

Building upon the answers already given, why don't you just use Html.Raw, but before doing so, replacing the \r\n that using Shift+Enter in the resource file results in, with a <br />

So say for example you had the string named Welcome in the resource file ApplicationMessage, you could do:

@Html.Raw(ApplicationMessage.Welcome.Replace("\r\n", "<br />")

That will give you what you need. Here's a similar question:

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Answer 2

You can put the <br /> for the line breaks and use the @Html.Raw() method to show the string with the line break instead of the <br /> string.