Line breaks in .xcstrings catalog

Question

I'm trying to add a line break to a string in the new Xcode 15 strings catalog, aka xcstrings. Thinking of nothing, I added the usual \n to the place where I want the line break.

But in my SwiftUI view I get to see the actual escaped \n and the text does not break lines. So the text "lorem ipsum\ndolor" gets presented to the user as "lorem ipsum\ndolor".

How can I create a text with intentional line breaks without using multiple independent strings in the catalog?

Answer 1

• Solution 1:
  Keep Option when adding a new line with Enter.

• Solution 2:
  Edit manually the xcstrings (which is a JSON file).

If you open the xcstrings file with a text editor, or right click on it, Open as/Source Code, you'll see this:

{
  "sourceLanguage" : "en",
  "strings" : {
    "key1" : {
      "extractionState" : "manual",
      "localizations" : {
        "en" : {
          "stringUnit" : {
            "state" : "translated",
            "value" : "key1\n2"
          }
        }
      }
    },
    "key2" : {
      "extractionState" : "manual",
      "localizations" : {
        "en" : {
          "stringUnit" : {
            "state" : "translated",
            "value" : "key2\\n2"
          }
        }
      }
    }
  },
  "version" : "1.0"
}

On key2, I write explicitly in the interface "\n" as you tried, and on key1, I kept Option while typing new line. Seeing in the source \\n explain why it's rendered once in the UI as visually \n and not a new line, since the backslash before the "n" is backslashed (ie escaped)