The following reply was made to PR pkg/32996; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: OBATA Akio <obata@lins.jp>
To: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: pkg/32996
Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2006 11:05:57 +0900

 This is not so much .po file format issue
 as bug of gettext<=0.10.35 in the basic sense.
 
 Even if build become successful, some character will be lost.
 To fix by patching to .po file, replace ALL \x escape sequence.
 
 see also bin/32650.