Re: xgettext misinterprets \x escapes in Python Unicode strings

[Bruno Haible]

Hello,

Jakub Wilk wrote in <http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=433743>:
> A comment in gettext-tools/src/x-python.c states:
> 
>     The \ooo and \xnn values are in the current source encoding.
> 
> This is false. According to <http://python.org/doc/ref/strings.html>:
> 
>     In a string literal, hexadecimal and octal escapes denote the byte 
>     with the given value; it is not necessary that the byte encodes a 
>     character in the source character set. In a Unicode literal, these 
>     escapes denote a Unicode character with the given value.

Thanks for pointing this out; the Python specification has apparently become
more precise over time.

> The attached patch fixes this problem.

Thank you very much! Applied. Will be contained in the next gettext release.

Bruno