Backslashes in MsgId are interpreted as escape char

[pchinery]

When calling catalog.GetString("\ ") on an empty catalog, I receive " " as result, the backslash disappears.

Is this intended or a bug? If it is a bug, I can look into that and (hopefully) create a PR.

[Kryptos-FR]

It is not an issue with NGettext but with your code itself. In C#, \ in string is an escaping character. So your C# string itself is just the space string (see the reference documentation).
You need to either provide a verbatim string literal such as @"\ " or double-escape it "\\ ".

[pchinery]

sorry, I oversimplyfied the example. I was using a string that was read from a file that contained a backslash and it was removed. So for the example above, it in deed would be catalog.GetString(@"\ ") that I was calling and it removed the backslash

[Kryptos-FR]

I couldn't reproduce. I tried to translate @"\ " with an empty catalog, a catalog not containing the string and a catalog containing the string, and in all cases I did receive the backslash as expected.

[pchinery]

Let me look up my example I had back then, maybe it is something that is somehow resolved now or involved more things like reading a mo file.