properly escape all unprintable characters

writing messages should no be in line with gettext tools. I tested
using msgcat, it provides the same results.

For some common use-cases I wrote explicit tests, for uncommon and
even unwanted use-cases I wrote one test to make sure pofile works
like msgcat for those messages

test/fixtures/c-strings.po

@@ -17,3 +17,43 @@ msgstr ""
 
 msgid "The name field must not contain characters like \" or \\"
 msgstr ""
+
+# possibility to reorder items depending on locale
+#. Format of addresses
+#. %1$s is the street
+#. %2$s is the postal code
+#. %3$s is the city
+#. %4$s is the state
+#. %5$s is the country
+msgid ""
+"%1$s\n"
+"%2$s %3$s\n"
+"%4$s\n"
+"%5$s"
+msgstr ""
+
+# "i18"ned code
+#. used in <pre> environment, so don't remove any control sequences
+msgid ""
+"define('some/test/module', function () {\n"
+"\t'use strict';\n"
+"\treturn {};\n"
+"});\n"
+""
+msgstr ""
+"define('random/test/file', function () {\n"
+"\t'use strict';\n"
+"\treturn {};\n"
+"});\n"
+""
+
+# all one-letter escape characters
+# be aware, that \a, \b, \v, \f and \r should not be used
+# in i18ned messages (according to gettext tools)
+# however, they should be properly parsed, anyway
+msgid ""
+"\a\b\t\n"
+"\v\f\r"
+msgstr ""
+"\a\b\t\n"
+"\v\f\r"

test/parse.js

@@ -133,19 +133,29 @@ describe('Parse', function () {
     });
 
     describe('C-Strings', function () {
+        var po = PO.parse(fs.readFileSync(__dirname + '/fixtures/c-strings.po', 'utf8'));
         it('should parse the c-strings.po file', function () {
-            var po = PO.parse(fs.readFileSync(__dirname + '/fixtures/c-strings.po', 'utf8'));
-
             assert.notEqual(po, null);
         });
 
         it('should extract strings containing " and \\ characters', function () {
-            var po = PO.parse(fs.readFileSync(__dirname + '/fixtures/c-strings.po', 'utf8'));
-
             var items = po.items.filter(function (item) {
                 return (/^The name field must not contain/).test(item.msgid);
             });
             assert.equal(items[0].msgid, 'The name field must not contain characters like " or \\');
         });
+
+        it('should handle \n characters', function () {
+            var item = po.items[1];
+            assert.equal(item.msgid, '%1$s\n%2$s %3$s\n%4$s\n%5$s');
+        });
+
+        it('should handle \t characters', function () {
+            var item = po.items[2];
+            assert.equal(item.msgid, 'define(\'some/test/module\', function () {\n' +
+                '\t\'use strict\';\n' +
+                '\treturn {};\n' +
+                '});\n');
+        });
     });
 });