Bug 1024895

Summary: cz:75:19: illegal escape sequence in string literal
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Jozef Mlich <jmlich>
Component: xkeyboard-configAssignee: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 20CC: hhorak, i18n-bugs, jmlich, jreznik, ltinkl, peter.hutterer
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Description Jozef Mlich 2013-10-30 14:49:38 UTC 
Description of problem:
There is an illegal escape sequence in string literal in /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/cz 


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
2.10.1-1.fc20


How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
$ qmlscene main.qml 
Error:    cz:75:19: illegal escape sequence in string literal
Error:    cz:75:19: syntax error
Error:    Couldn't process include statement for 'cz(qwerty)'
Error:    Abandoning symbols file "(unnamed)"
Error:    Failed to compile xkb_symbols
Error:    Failed to compile keymap
Qt: Failed to compile a keymap

Actual results:
Error:    cz:75:19: illegal escape sequence in string literal
Error:    cz:75:19: syntax error
Error:    Couldn't process include statement for 'cz(qwerty)'
Error:    Abandoning symbols file "(unnamed)"
Error:    Failed to compile xkb_symbols
Error:    Failed to compile keymap
Qt: Failed to compile a keymap


Expected results:
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Additional info:
I am using Fedora 20 with Mate Desktop. Installed keyboard layouts are "English (US) and Czech (querty)".
Comment 1 Jozef Mlich 2013-10-30 14:50:48 UTC 
Seems to be fixed in upstream https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=68056
Comment 2 Peter Hutterer 2013-12-13 00:49:35 UTC 
should be fixed with libxkbcommon 0.3.1, can you please test?
Comment 3 Jozef Mlich 2013-12-16 16:22:01 UTC 
Still not working.

$ qmlscene 
Error:    cz:75:19: illegal escape sequence in string literal
Error:    cz:75:19: syntax error
Error:    Couldn't process include statement for 'cz(qwerty)'
Error:    Abandoning symbols file "(unnamed)"
Error:    Failed to compile xkb_symbols
Error:    Failed to compile keymap
Qt: Failed to compile a keymap
[jmlich@unused-4-145 ~]$ yum info libxkbcommon
Loaded plugins: langpacks, refresh-packagekit
Installed Packages
Name        : libxkbcommon
Arch        : x86_64
Version     : 0.3.1
Release     : 1.fc20
Size        : 394 k
Repo        : installed
From repo   : anaconda
Summary     : X.Org X11 XKB parsing library
URL         : http://www.x.org
License     : MIT
Description : libxkbcommon is the X.Org library for compiling XKB maps into formats usable by
            : the X Server or other display servers.

Available Packages
Name        : libxkbcommon
Arch        : i686
Version     : 0.3.1
Release     : 1.fc20
Size        : 99 k
Repo        : fedora/20/x86_64
Summary     : X.Org X11 XKB parsing library
URL         : http://www.x.org
License     : MIT
Description : libxkbcommon is the X.Org library for compiling XKB maps into formats usable by
            : the X Server or other display servers.
Comment 4 Lukáš Tinkl 2014-06-02 10:52:59 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1100231 ***