I'm not familiar with relevant code, but it seems to me that ideally wrc would support \r in this case.
i can get wrc to take \r. but when the message is passed to gettext, i get this: "warning: internationalized messages should not contain the '\r' escape sequence"
the same warning is shown for other escape sequences, like \v i can skip the \r and it's still multi-line, but the output miscompares with windows which has the \r the only alternative i see is is to break the multiline message into multiple single-line messages
thanks daniel