Problem with posieve

[Freek de Kruijf]

Op zondag 29 oktober 2023 11:16:18 CET schreef Albert Astals Cid:
> El dijous, 26 d’octubre de 2023, a les 17:11:58 (CET), Freek de Kruijf va
> 
> escriure:
> > When running .../pology/bin/posieve --skip-obsolete check-tp-kde
> > nl/messages/ I got the error:
> > 
> > posieve: [error] Invalid C escape sequence after '\'.
> > 
> > without any indication about which file caused this error message. It is
> > part of a script I have been using for many years without any need to
> > change it.
> > 
> > I made a script, first to find the folder in which this error occurred,
> > and
> > next to find the file with the error. Forgot about
> > 
> > The error appeared to be a backslash in front of a normal word.
> > 
> > I wonder if posieve could report the error with the name of the file even
> > when there is no option given to report more details.
> 
> Maybe, would you have to give us a file that has this problem so we can try
> to reproduce it?

It is quite simple; put a backslash \ in front of a word in a .po file in 
messages of your language and run the above command on <your language>/
messages like above. If I recall correctly, it was the first word in an 
element.
> 
> Cheers,
>   Albert
> 
> > Later I found that probably --verbose could have given me the same result.


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Freek de Kruijf
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