Re: gettext .mo files and nullentry

[Joachim Metz]

In addition:

The plural form parser (plural.y) does not check for an upper bound of
numeric values.
line 257 in plural.y

Joachim

On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 10:45 AM, Joachim Metz <address@hidden> wrote:
> Dear gettext team,
>
> First of all great work on gettext.
>
> I'm currently looking into .mo files and was missing information about
> the nullentry in the documentation.
> Mainly the required and optional entries, e.g. 'Content-Type:' with a
> 'charset=' seems required.
> Could you update the documentation.
>
> Looking at the libintl-0.14.4 code I found that libintl has a logical
> error (the same error consists in glibc 2.9).
> libintl searches for the 'charset=', 'nplural=' and 'plural='
> sub-string in the nullentry, but it fails to check if the definition
> (line) they are in are the right one, e.g. if they start with
> 'Content-Type:' or 'Plural-Forms:'.
>
> Kind regards,
> Joachim Metz
>