Re: Bug#196637: gettext: xgettext messes with control characters (fwd)

[Stepan Kasal]

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