# [PATCH (GIT-GUI MSYSGIT FIX)] git-gui: Fix string escaping in po2msg.sh

1 messages from 2008-08-30 to 2008-08-30. Participants: Alexander Gavrilov.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/15291

## Alexander Gavrilov, 2008-08-30 21:12

Subject: [PATCH (GIT-GUI MSYSGIT FIX)] git-gui: Fix string escaping in po2msg.sh
Message-ID: <200808310112.26506.angavrilov@gmail.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/200808310112.26506.angavrilov%40gmail.com

```
Escape '$', because otherwise git-gui crashes while
trying to load malformed Japanese localization strings.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Gavrilov <angavrilov@gmail.com>
---
 po/po2msg.sh |    4 ++--
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/po/po2msg.sh b/po/po2msg.sh
index b7c4bf3..1e9f992 100644
--- a/po/po2msg.sh
+++ b/po/po2msg.sh
@@ -11,8 +11,8 @@ proc u2a {s} {
 	foreach i [split $s ""] {
 		scan $i %c c
 		if {$c<128} {
-			# escape '[', '\' and ']'
-			if {$c == 0x5b || $c == 0x5d} {
+			# escape '[', '\', '$' and ']'
+			if {$c == 0x5b || $c == 0x5d || $c == 0x24} {
 				append res "\\"
 			}
 			append res $i
-- 
1.6.0.20.g6148bc

```