On Thu, Mar 11, 2004 at 02:13:34PM -0800, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> gettext in pkgsrc is old. Maybe the msgfmt is too old.

NetBSD-current includes gettext-lib 0.10.x,, and pkgsrc has 0.11.x.

Here's what I found:

GNU gettext 0.10.x expects the '\' character to be escaped as \\
GNU gettext 0.11.x expects the '\' character to be not escaped, just \
SunOS 5.8 msgfmt expects the '\' character to be not escaped, just \

I suspect that in this situation, the SunOS and pkgsrc gettext are correct,
and the NetBSD gettext is buggy.

Ben
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