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Re: Bug#196637: gettext: xgettext messes with control characters (fwd)
From: |
Stepan Kasal |
Subject: |
Re: Bug#196637: gettext: xgettext messes with control characters (fwd) |
Date: |
Mon, 9 Jun 2003 12:06:04 +0200 |
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Mutt/1.2.5.1i |
Hello,
thank you for taking care to report bugs.
On Sun, Jun 08, 2003 at 06:35:22PM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote:
> xgettext has been changing \v to ^K for some time now. Please make it
> stop.
well, I think this is one big misunderstanding. \v _is_ in fact ^K.
Both \v and ctrl-K mean the character with code 11, ie. 0x0b, which is
also called ``vertical-tab.''
When you look at the complaint as it arived to the list, you see that
the vertical tab has been there ans has been interpreted the right way:
> $ echo 'gettext("This ->\v<- is a \\v.\n")'|xgettext -L c -o - -|tail -3
> #: standard input:1
> msgid "This ->
> <- is a \\v.\n"
> msgstr ""
So I guess the most probable resolution is that this is not a bug and
whenever the editor (vim?, emacs?) displays ^K, it means \v.
Sure you can configure your editor, if it were that important.
Hope this explains it,
Stepan Kasal