Re: zh_TW.Big5.po: illegal control sequence

["Martin Bialasinski" <martin internet-treff uni-koeln de>]

Hi,

> I cannot process zh_TW.Big5.po - msgfmt from gettext 0.10.35 reports:
> 
> zh_TW.Big5.po:687: illegal control sequence
> zh_TW.Big5.po:692: illegal control sequence
> zh_TW.Big5.po:697: illegal control sequence
> ...
> 
> >From what I can see you have consistently replaced double backslashes with
> the single ones in the Chinese text (but not in the language-neutral
> constructs like `\\1').

This is necessary for gettext (GNU gettext) 0.10.37 at
least. Otherwise, you get errors like

invalid control sequence
end-of-line within string

Check out these mails:

http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2001-04/msg00132.html
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2001-04/msg00131.html

Ciao,
        Martin