[Groff] Localization package

[Fabrice Ménard]

I found a subtle problem with a translated string.  It concerns the mm package 
and the string for the abstract title with accented letters:

in fr.tmac we've got:
.ds \*[locale]-abstract R\[E ']SUM\[E ']\"
in trans.tmac:
.als cov*abs-name \*[locale]-abstract

The problem is that address@hidden in ms.cov is called like this:
address@hidden "R\[E" "']SUM\[E" "']"

(i.e. it is called with three arguments due to spaces in the string)

So when it's time to print, groff complains with:
'A newline character is not allowed in an escape name'

I can't find a clean way to solve this:
  -  Prepending the translated string with "" works for the abstract in the 
first page of the document, but the second one (.MT 4 mode) contains one " 
before the string.
  -  Using É directly instead the escape mecanism is coding dependant.

Any clue ?

Note: I don't know if this happens with other accented strings.

-- 
Fabrice Ménard
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