Re: [BUG] xgettext seems unable to deal concatenated wide char strings

[Bruno Haible]

Hi Érico,

> Hi! I noticed this issue while working on translations for the
> fish-shell [1], which makes heavy usage of wide char strings.
> 
> - [1] https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell
> 
> My xgettext version is 0.20.2.
> 
> Starting from a C file such as:
> 
>     int main()
>     {
>             gettext(L"single line");
> 
>             gettext(L"double "
>                             L"line ");
> 
>             gettext(L"single line but" L" split");
> 
>             gettext("double line"
>                             " non wide");
>     }

Thanks for the report. This will be fixed in the next release, through
this commit:

https://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=gettext.git;a=commitdiff;h=1a5081fda1e4dfefcf727df7aa812f0b92f7977b

Note, however, that you can better write reliable programs with 'char *'
strings than with 'wchar_t *' strings [1].

Bruno

[1] 
https://www.gnu.org/software/libunistring/manual/html_node/The-wchar_005ft-mess.html