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<screen><userinput remap="pre">sed -i 's:\\\${:\\\$\\{:' intltool-update.in</userinput></screen>
+ <note><para>The above regular expression looks unusual because of all the
+ baxkslashes. What it does is add a backslash before the right brace
+ character in the sequence '\${' resulting in '\$\{'.</para></note>
+
<para>Prepare Intltool for compilation:</para>
<screen><userinput remap="configure">./configure --prefix=/usr</userinput></screen>