Bug 150922

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Description of problem:
Lupdate interprets three-digit octal escape sequences followed by an octal digit incorrectly. The following minimal C++ program (ltest.cpp) can be used to reproduce the error:

#include <iostream>
#include <qapplication.h>

int main( int argc, char* argv[] )
{
  QApplication app( argc, argv );
  std::cout << app.translate( "", "\0421", "", QApplication::UnicodeUTF8 ) << std::endl;
}

According to Bjarne Stroustrup's "The C++ Programming Language", 3rd edition, appendix C, section 3, subsection 2 an octal escape sequence is at most three digits long. Which means additional octal digits have to be interpreted as ordinary characters. If you compile ltest.cpp using

g++ -I/usr/lib/qt-3.3/include -L/usr/lib/qt-3.3/lib -lqt-mt ltest.cpp

and run it, it correctly outputs a double quote (octal 42) followed by the number one.

lupdate however inteprets the string "\0421" as four-digit octal escape sequence.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
qt-designer-3.3.3

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. lupdate ltest.cpp -ts ltest.ts
2. cat ltest.ts
3.
  

Actual Results:  <!DOCTYPE TS><TS>
<context>
    <name></name>
    <message>
        <source><byte value="x11"/></source>
        <translation type="unfinished"></translation>
    </message>
</context>
</TS>


Expected Results:  <!DOCTYPE TS><TS>
<context>
    <name></name>
    <message>
        <source>&quot;1</source>
        <translation type="unfinished"></translation>
    </message>
</context>
</TS>


Additional info:

This error can be workarounded by isolating octal escape sequences into their own string literals.

#include <iostream>
#include <qapplication.h>

int main( int argc, char* argv[] )
{
  QApplication app( argc, argv );
  std::cout << app.translate( "", "\042""1", "", QApplication::UnicodeUTF8 ) << std::endl;
}