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bug #46756: xgettext 0.19.6 mangles C escapes; causes po file corruption

Submitter:  None
Submitted:  Fri 25 Dec 2015 04:53:26 PM UTC
   
 
Category:  C Severity:  4 - Important
Item Group:  None Status:  Fix Released
Privacy:  Public Assigned to:  haible
Open/Closed:  Closed

Thu 09 May 2019 07:20:43 PM UTC, comment #4: 

The fix is contained in the gettext-0.20 release.

Bruno Haible <haible>
Group administrator
Mon 05 Nov 2018 07:30:21 AM UTC, comment #3: 

This is a huge amount of effort; thank you for working on that!

Daiki Ueno <ueno>
Group administrator
Sun 04 Nov 2018 11:32:36 PM UTC, comment #2: 

This is fixed now.

> it is not straightforward to fix this, now that the \u escape is introduced.


The \u parsing (changes from 2014-05-02) were OK in this respect. The problem were the "interpret string literals lazily" changes from 2014-05-07 and 2014-05-09.

I reverted these changes, added a couple of additional tests, and then made changes until all tests passed.

Bruno Haible <haible>
Group administrator
Fri 25 Dec 2015 11:36:06 PM UTC, comment #1: 

Yes, this is certainly a regression and the character escapes should be converted before concatenating adjacent strings.

However, it is not straightforward to fix this, now that the \u escape is introduced.  I guess it would be ideally fixed by consolidating encoding conversion stuff (currently in xgettext.c) into character escape handling (x-c.c) and do that before string concatenation.

In any case, an easy work around is to use octal escapes.

Daiki Ueno <ueno>
Group administrator
Fri 25 Dec 2015 04:53:26 PM UTC, original submission:  

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welinder@lenovo ~/temp $ cat foo.c
char *x = N_("Jean Br\xc3\xa9""fort");
welinder@lenovo ~/temp $ cat POTFILES.in
foo.c

welinder@lenovo ~/temp $ /usr/bin/xgettext --version
xgettext (GNU gettext-tools) 0.18.3
[...]
welinder@lenovo ~/temp $ /usr/bin/xgettext --keyword=N_
"--add-comments" "--directory=." "--default-domain=foo"
"--from-code=UTF-8" "--files-from=./POTFILES.in"
welinder@lenovo ~/temp $ grep Jean foo.po
msgid "Jean Bréfort"

### That's "Jean Bre\'efort" in there.

With 0.19.6 we get...

welinder@lenovo ~/temp $ xgettext --version
xgettext (GNU gettext-tools) 0.19.6
[...]
welinder@lenovo ~/temp $ xgettext --keyword=N_ "--add-comments"
"--directory=." "--default-domain=foo" "--from-code=UTF-8"
"--files-from=./POTFILES.in"
welinder@lenovo ~/temp $ grep Jean foo.po
msgid "Jean Brßort"

### Instead of et e' we now have a German double-s.  And the f is gone.

Anonymous

 

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    Date Changed by Updated Field Previous Value => Replaced by
    2023-01-04 haible StatusFixed Fix Released
    2018-11-04 haible StatusConfirmed Fixed
        Assigned toNone haible
        Open/ClosedOpen Closed
    2018-01-06 haible Severity3 - Normal 4 - Important
    2016-11-27 haible CategoryNone C
    2015-12-25 ueno StatusNone Confirmed

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