This actually not a bug in ki18n but in qtscript-opensource-src [1]. Closing this bug report as I have provided a patch in #902635 to address the issue.
Adrian > [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=902635 -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913