[Po4a-devel]Non breaking spaces in man pages

Hi, I was just gettextizing some man pages and I've noticed a problem when trying to mix several po files: $ msgcat *.po file1.po:19:10: invalid multibyte sequence msgcat: found 1 fatal error I've found that there was a strange character in that position, and it seems it's the equivalent of man page's "\ ". What's its meaning? Why is it handled with this strange byte? It seems we're generating non-compliant po files :S Regards, Jordi Vilalta