Bug 1026763

+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #1025906 +++

Description of problem:
When a literal backslash is in an L10N value, it is treated nonuniformly by the Locale::Maketext::_compile method, as patched by RH in Locale::Maketext::Guts (per https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=884354).  The result depends on unrelated parts of the string.

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How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a language token, whose value is 'Some data\n'
2. Query the language token through Locale::Maketext ($lh->maketext($tag))

Actual results:
'Some data\\n'

Expected results:
'Some data\n'

Additional info:

The behavior changes in the following cases:
1) If the value contains a tokenized field, behavior depends on whether there is a trailing newline:

'[_1]Some data\n' => 'Some data\n'
'[_1]Some data\n'."\n" => 'Some data\\n
'
2) If the escaped backslash is in a function call, it behaves as expected:

'Some data[sprintf,\n]' => 'Some data\n'



NOTE: All of these cases in standard perl (with Locale::Maketext v 1.13 from CPAN) behave exactly the same as each other, and they all produce just a single '\' before the 'n'.


--- Additional comment from Petr Pisar on 2013-11-04 12:16:19 GMT ---

The 'Some data\n' is due to back-porting the fix to perl 5.10.1.

The parameterized case behaves for me differently and is caused by the changes in the fix. Even latest Locale::Maketext is affected.
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All Fedoras are affected.