Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 07 Apr 2009 20:56:36 +0200 | From | Massimo Maiurana <> | Subject | kconfig: update-po-config broken in 2.6.29 |
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hi, in latest 2.6.29 "make update-po-config" fails at msguniq invocation with an "invalid control sequence" error. the offending string is the following, and it's located in drivers/staging/panel/Kconfig:72: "'\e[L' which are specific to the LCD, and a few ANSI codes. The"
looks to me like gettext expects strings in printf format, so in this case it thinks "\e" is a control sequence but doesn't recognise it as a valid one.
I can still obtain a suitable linux.pot file escaping the backslash, and the resulting linux.mo file works even if the string is again unescaped, but of course if I leave the escaped string it will be displayed as-is (with a double backslash) if i run a configurator in english, so it is not a valid solution for a patch.
Maybe a valid solution would be to tell kxgettext to automatically escape this kind of strings in the */config.pot he produces, so that msguniq would not complain?... I don't really know, and I don't even know how to do it. I see there is an escape function right at the top of kxgettext.c, but as I'm not a coder I don't really know how to hack it, so it's up to you... sorry.
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