[bug #57990] msgmerge (not msgfmt) invalid multibyte sequence for valid UTF-8 sequence

[Sam Liddicott]

URL:
  <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?57990>

                 Summary: msgmerge (not msgfmt) invalid multibyte sequence for
valid UTF-8 sequence
                 Project: GNU gettext
            Submitted by: samjam
            Submitted on: Fri 13 Mar 2020 03:51:53 PM UTC
                Category: Translator tools
                Severity: 3 - Normal
              Item Group: None
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any

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Details:

Using msgmerge 0.19.8.1 this simple test fails:

echo bXNnaWQgIldBUk5JTkciCm1zZ3N0ciAi6K2m5ZGKIgo= | base64 -d | msgmerge
/dev/stdin /dev/null

even using iconv to sanitise fails, though iconv doesn't complain:

echo bXNnaWQgIldBUk5JTkciCm1zZ3N0ciAi6K2m5ZGKIgo= | base64 -d | iconv -t UTF-8
| msgmerge /dev/stdin /dev/null

but the same input to msgfmt works:

echo bXNnaWQgIldBUk5JTkciCm1zZ3N0ciAi6K2m5ZGKIgo= | base64 -d | msgfmt -o
/tmp/x.mo /dev/stdin

My system is LinuxMint 19.1

My environment has:
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=en_GB:en



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Date: Fri 13 Mar 2020 03:51:53 PM UTC  Name: x.po  Size: 32B   By: samjam
x.po is the failing file, but passed as valid by iconv and online utf-8
validators
<http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/download.php?file_id=48591>

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