diff --git a/gettext-fix-octal-char-escape.patch b/gettext-fix-octal-char-escape.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..ac3fbff
--- /dev/null
+++ b/gettext-fix-octal-char-escape.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+diff --git a/gettext-tools/src/x-c.c b/gettext-tools/src/x-c.c
+index 479b8e8..a5978c9 100644
+--- a/gettext-tools/src/x-c.c
++++ b/gettext-tools/src/x-c.c
+@@ -996,7 +996,8 @@ literalstring_parse (const char *string, lex_pos_ty *pos,
+               for (n = 0, j = 0; j < 3; ++j)
+                 {
+                   n = n * 8 + c - '0';
+-                  switch (*++p)
++                  c = *++p;
++                  switch (c)
+                     {
+                     default:
+                       break;
diff --git a/gettext.spec b/gettext.spec
index c75877e..48a1310 100644
--- a/gettext.spec
+++ b/gettext.spec
@@ -6,13 +6,15 @@
 Summary: GNU libraries and utilities for producing multi-lingual messages
 Name: gettext
 Version: 0.19.2
-Release: 3%{?dist}
+Release: 4%{?dist}
 License: GPLv3+ and LGPLv2+
 Group: Development/Tools
 URL: http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/
 Source: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gettext/%{name}-%{version}.tar.xz
 Source2: msghack.py
 Source3: msghack.1
+# backport from upstream
+Patch0: gettext-fix-octal-char-escape.patch
 # removal of openmp.m4
 BuildRequires: autoconf >= 2.62
 BuildRequires: automake
@@ -134,6 +136,7 @@ Emacs.
 
 %prep
 %setup -q
+%patch0 -p1 -b .fix-octal-char-escape.patch
 
 
 %build
@@ -329,6 +332,9 @@ fi
 %{_emacs_sitelispdir}/%{name}/*.el
 
 %changelog
+* Fri Oct  3 2014 Daiki Ueno <dueno@redhat.com> - 0.19.2-4
+- apply patch to fix C octal character escape handling (Closes: #1147535)
+
 * Tue Sep 02 2014 Dennis Gilmore <dennis@ausil.us> - 0.19.2-3
 - rebuild for libunistring soname bump