[DRE-maint] Bug#716916: Bug#716916: ruby-gettext: rxgettext doubles the backslashes in newline '\n' characters

[Francesco Poli]

On Tue, 27 Aug 2013 10:24:49 +0200 Jérémy Bobbio wrote:

[...]
> Hi Francesco,

Hi Jérémy, thanks for your kind followup.

> 
> Francesco Poli (wintermute):
[...]
> > I noticed something new in rxgettext, and it looks like a newly
> > introduced bug.
> > […]
> > Why all the newline '\n' characters are produced with doubled
> > backslashes (as "\\n")?
> > I do not see this behavior, if I use xgettext (from the gettext
> > package).
> 
> After some bisection, it has been introduced in upstream commit
> ef467007b, first appeared in version 2.3.0. This looks intentional.

Intentional? Doesn't this break compatibility with msgmerge ?

> I will ask upstream.

Thank you very much: it's really appreciated.
Bye.


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