Every CatComp contains a bug for Esc (often used in MUI catalogs):
\e should encode ASCII code 27 instead of code 30.
So you have to replace each \e by \033 or simply apply this patch.

spatch CatComp

 PERMSSN    UID  GID    PACKED    SIZE  RATIO METHOD CRC     STAMP          NAME
---------- ----------- ------- ------- ------ ---------- ------------ -------------
[generic]                  132     132 100.0% -lh0- 37c6 Jul 12 13:07 CatComp.pch
[generic]                 9285   14636  63.4% -lh5- e89d Feb  9  2006 spatch
---------- ----------- ------- ------- ------ ---------- ------------ -------------
 Total         2 files    9417   14768  63.8%            Jul 12 21:07