Localization and the Perl Script

After some cajoling, I've prevailed on our tech-writer-who-doesn't-do-any-writing to modify his Perl scripts. The changes will remove the thousands of CRLF (hard returns) in the 3700 extracted HTML files, and result in better Trados matching between the new files and translation memory.

Then, of course, it will take a few hours' perusal to see what breaks as a result of that fix.

It seems to be an unsung inconvenience of localization that
a
sentence
put
together
with
these
words
and
looking
like
this

separated by hard returns in the raw HTML file (which you can see by viewing source in a browser) becomes

a sentence put together with these words and looking like this

when viewed in a browser. The translation memory tools, of course, see the hard returns and try in vain to match accordingly, but they can result in a fair bit of head-scratching to those viewing the files only through a browser.