diff -r 86e4daa2d54c -r e65e7290041e contrib/check-code.py
--- a/contrib/check-code.py	Sun Oct 06 10:51:16 2019 -0400
+++ b/contrib/check-code.py	Sun Oct 06 10:20:17 2019 -0400
@@ -508,7 +508,7 @@
          [ \t\n#]*
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            # contains translatable message)
-         ((['"]|\'\'\'|""")[ \npq%bAPMxno]*(['"]|\'\'\'|""")[ \t\n#]+)*
+         b?((['"]|\'\'\'|""")[ \npq%bAPMxno]*(['"]|\'\'\'|""")[ \t\n#]+)*
          (?# sequence consisting of below might precede translatable message
            # - formatting string: "% 10s", "%05d", "% -3.2f", "%*s", "%%" ...
            # - escaped character: "\\", "\n", "\0" ...