Re: i18n for yacc backend messages

[Jan Nieuwenhuizen]

Paul Eggert writes:

> and if you print that string you'll see this:
>
> "\\'?\"\a\b\f\n\r\t\v\001\377\001\377"
>
> and this is a C representation of an equivalent to the original
> string.

Ah, yes.  But I would rather not feed the average lilypond user a C
represenation of a string, most of our users are not programmers.
This

   %token BOOK "\\book"

is into this

    "\"\\\\book\""

which will print as

    bison.ly:8:5: error: syntax error, unexpected "\\book", expecting '{'

The extra backslash is not helpful.  Hmm.
Jan.

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