what arrived to initscripts?

In http://svn.mandriva.com/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/soft/initscripts/trunk/mandriva/po/initscripts.pot?view=log
we can read:

Revision 255043
Modified Sun Mar 29 13:52:13 2009 UTC (6 months, 2 weeks ago) by anssi
File length: 161700 byte(s)

Revision 255546 -
Modified Sat Apr 4 19:24:13 2009 UTC (6 months, 1 week ago) by eugeni
File length: 15877 byte(s)

Revision 261864
Modified Tue Oct 13 16:25:09 2009 UTC (24 hours, 57 minutes ago) by fcrozat
File length: 90436 byte(s)

It seems that a lot of messages have been removed and added again.
This way a lot of translations have been missed.

I downloaded 2 versions of it,po

The actual one
$ msgfmt --statistics -o /dev/null  it-261864.po
142 messaggi tradotti, 413 traduzioni fuzzy, 338 messaggi non tradotti.

6 month ago:
$ msgfmt --statistics -o /dev/null  it-255320.po
1629 messaggi tradotti.

I merged them:
$ msgmerge -v it-255320.po it-261864.po > it-restored.po
..........................................................................................................................................................................
Letti 1 vecchi + 1 riferimenti, fusi 789, fuzzy 79, persi 28, obsoleti 792.
it-255320.po:2858: i messaggi internazionalizzati non devono contenere
la sequenza di escape "\a"

The result is
$ msgfmt --statistics -o /dev/null  it-restored.po
786 messaggi tradotti, 79 traduzioni fuzzy, 28 messaggi non tradotti.

This means that 644=786-142 valid translations have been cancelled!

Now i will restore it.po, but problem concern almost all languages.

By the way, what means the issue about escape sequence "\a" ?

Andrea