Translate Toolkit 2.4.0
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*Released on 24 June 2019*

This release contains improvements and bug fixes.


Changes
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Formats and Converters
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- PO

  - Allow unicode in PO headers (:issue:`3896`).
  - Improve finding out newline format for a file.
  - Strip UTF-8 BOM from input (:issue:`1640`).

- XLIFF

  - Adjustments on how output is indented (:issue:`3424`).

- Properties

  - Do not fail when parsing empty file.

- Android resources

  - Multiple adjustments so output is closer to Android Studio's.

- YAML

  - Switched to `ruamel.yaml` to simplify codebase and support YAML 1.2.
  - Added support for Ruby plurals.
  - Fixed handling dict in list (:issue:`3895`).
  - Fixed parsing of empty YAML file.

- JSON

  - Fixed serialization of JSON arrays.
  - Placeholders are now kept in WebExtension dialect round trip conversion.

- RESX

  - Several improvements on formatting to align with Visual Studio's output.

- TS

  - Improved tags indentation.
  - Added support for new `vanished` type.

- Flat XML

  - Added support for this new format including `flatxml2po` and `po2flatxml`
    converters (:issue:`3776`).

- CSV

  - No longer hardcode escape character (:issue:`3246`).
  - Rewrote default dialect to make it more flexible.

- web2py

  - Updated converters code.

- Subtitles

  - Initialize duration on subtitle unit `__init__`.


Tools
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- Tmserver: Fixed execution of unit API on Python 3.


Languages
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- Updated plural definitions to CLDR 35.0.
- Removed trailing semicolon in Romanian plural definition.


Placeables
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- Allow any character for Python mapping keys in `PythonFormattingPlaceable`.


API changes
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- Altered storage code to have a consistent API for `removenotes`.
- Removed dependency on diff-match-patch.
- Removed embedded CherryPy wsgi server.
- Removed deprecated `has_key` implementation.


General
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- Dropped no longer supported Python 3.3 and Python 3.4.
- Minor docs improvements.
- Updated requirements.
- Added and updated tests.


Contributors
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This release was made possible by the following people:

Michal Čihař, Leandro Regueiro, Vinyl Darkscratch, Vitaly Novichkov, Stuart
Prescott, Alex Tomkins, Darío Hereñú, BhaaL.

And to all our bug finders and testers, a Very BIG Thank You.