[bug-gawk] Option --gen-pot loses a letter when splitting long strings

[Bert Bos]

When using “gawk —gen-pot” to generate a message catalog, strings that are 
longer than 70 characters are broken over two lines in the output. However, the 
70th character itself disappears.

E.g., with this Awk program in file tmp.awk:

{print _"This string is so long that gawk --gen-pot will break it and lose a 
letter at the break.”}

running “gawk —gen-pot” produces:

#: tmp.awk:1
msgid "This string is so long that gawk --gen-pot will break it and lose a "
"etter at the break."
msgstr ""

Note the missing “l” from “letter”. This occurs with at least:

  - gawk 4.0.1 under Debian “wheezy” for amd64
  - gawk 4.1.1 under Debian “jessie” for amd64
  - gawk 4.1.1 from Macports under Mac OS 10.9 ("Mavericks”)

The result is the same after setting LC_ALL=C.



Bert
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