Title: broken .pot file
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# broken .pot file

 *  [Doe3](https://wordpress.org/support/users/doe3/)
 * (@doe3)
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/broken-pot-file/)
 * Hi,
    I need to translate some strings using the .pot file, but Poedit says that
   there is an invalid control sequence in it and thus no .mo file can be created
   or used. This is sequence in question:
 * > You can edit this home page using our free, drag and drop Page Builder, or 
   > simply disable it to fall back to a standard blog. It\’s a powerful page building
   > experience.
 * Poedit doesn’t let me touch the original sequence so I don’t know what to do.

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 *  [Greg – SiteOrigin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gpriday/)
 * (@gpriday)
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/broken-pot-file/#post-4192766)
 * That looks like a bit of a problem. I’ll take a look at this and try fix the 
   translation files in the next update. Thanks for letting me know Doe.
 *  Thread Starter [Doe3](https://wordpress.org/support/users/doe3/)
 * (@doe3)
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/broken-pot-file/#post-4192767)
 * Okay, thanks.
 *  [Greg – SiteOrigin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gpriday/)
 * (@gpriday)
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/broken-pot-file/#post-4192839)
 * I’ve managed to fix up the POT file. It seems there was a problem in my theme
   build process.
 * The next update will have a working POT file. That’ll be 1.0.10 free and 2.0.10
   premium.
 *  Thread Starter [Doe3](https://wordpress.org/support/users/doe3/)
 * (@doe3)
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/broken-pot-file/#post-4192841)
 * Thanks Greg.

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