diff --git a/moo/mooedit/language-specs/octave.lang b/moo/mooedit/language-specs/octave.lang
index 51755244..a4abf65a 100644
--- a/moo/mooedit/language-specs/octave.lang
+++ b/moo/mooedit/language-specs/octave.lang
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@
     </context>
 
     <context id="single-quoted-string" style-ref="string" end-at-line-end="true">
-      <!-- 
+      <!--
        To do not misdetect the transpose operator ' as the start of a string
        we assert to not follow a variable name (letters, digits and underscores)
        or a closing bracket (round, square or curly) or a dot (to form the
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@
       <start>(?&lt;![0-9a-zA-Z_)\]}\.])'</start>
       <end>'</end>
       <include>
-        <context style-ref="escape">
+        <context style-ref="def:special-char">
           <match>''</match>
         </context>
         <context ref="def:line-continue"/>
diff --git a/moo/mooedit/language-specs/testfiles.sh b/moo/mooedit/language-specs/testfiles.sh
index 2b993f68..d11cb93e 100755
--- a/moo/mooedit/language-specs/testfiles.sh
+++ b/moo/mooedit/language-specs/testfiles.sh
@@ -10,11 +10,18 @@
 # makefile.lang ms.lang perl.lang po.lang python.lang sh.lang
 # texinfo.lang xml.lang yacc.lang libtool.lang pkgconfig.lang
 # objc.lang chdr.lang testv1.lang t2t.lang fortran.lang forth.lang
+# octave.lang
 
 dir="testdir"
 mkdir -p $dir/
 
-cat > $dir/file.t2t <<EOFEOF
+cat > $dir/file.octave <<EOFEOF
+% gtk-source-lang: octave
+% -*- octave -*-
+No idea what syntax is
+EOFEOF
+
+cat > $dir/file.t2t <<\EOFEOF
 ! gtk-source-lang: t2t
 
 %!include ``something``