Bug#493218: gettext: crash with some unicode chars (fwd)

[Santiago Vila]

Hello.

I received this from the Debian bug system.
I tried to reproduce it and xgettext effectively aborts.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Yann <address@hidden>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <address@hidden>
Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2008 13:45:02 +0200
Subject: Bug#493218: gettext: crash with some unicode chars

Package: gettext
Version: 0.17-3
Severity: important

to reproduce, just open a file test.py with only u'\udfff' in it, and
run xgettext t.py
we get a Aborted message

it works with \ud800 for exemple, doesn't work with \udffe.

This string isn't translatable, so why xgettext parse it? And why does
it fail?

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