Massimo Maiurana reported (slightly edited):

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In latest 2.6.29 "make update-po-config" fails at msguniq invocation
with an "invalid control sequence" error.
The offending string is the following, and it's located in
drivers/staging/panel/Kconfig:72:

    "'\e[L' which are specific to the LCD, and a few ANSI codes. The"

looks to me like gettext expects strings in printf format, so in
this case it thinks "\e" is a control sequence but doesn't recognise
it as a valid one.

A valid solution would be to tell kxgettext to automatically
escape this kind of strings in the */config.pot he produces, so that
msguniq would not complain.
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This patch implements the suggested escaping.
Reported-by: Massimo Maiurana <maiurana@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Massimo Maiurana <maiurana@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>