linux-kernel - kconfig: update-po-config broken in 2.6.29

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Date:	Tue, 07 Apr 2009 20:56:36 +0200
From:	Massimo Maiurana <maiurana@...il.com>
To:	sam@...nborg.org
CC:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: kconfig: update-po-config broken in 2.6.29

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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