diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs]
index 0765bbaf176f..591424edf3cc 100644
--- a/[refs]
+++ b/[refs]
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: 79ff807cf23ffb527f3f35bdececf56cabcdee07
+refs/heads/master: 612c280ef2400c70ea2fd8f2e17549c95002368c
diff --git a/trunk/scripts/kconfig/kxgettext.c b/trunk/scripts/kconfig/kxgettext.c
index 6eb72a7f2562..8d9ce22b0fc5 100644
--- a/trunk/scripts/kconfig/kxgettext.c
+++ b/trunk/scripts/kconfig/kxgettext.c
@@ -43,6 +43,10 @@ static char *escape(const char* text, char *bf, int len)
 			++text;
 			goto next;
 		}
+		else if (*text == '\\') {
+			*bfp++ = '\\';
+			len--;
+		}
 		*bfp++ = *text++;
 next:
 		--len;