Bug#279992: xgettext misparses Bash source using "eval_gettext" and the `'' character (fwd)

[Santiago Vila]

Hello.

Received this from the Debian bug system:

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From: Alfredo <address@hidden>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <address@hidden>
Date: Sat, 06 Nov 2004 15:50:54 +0100
Subject: Bug#279992: xgettext misparses Bash source using "eval_gettext" and 
the `'' character

Package: gettext
Version: 0.14.1-5
Severity: normal

from the Advanced Bash Scripting Guide:

        error "`eval_gettext \"Can't cd to \$var.\"`"

using xgettext to extract this string doesn't work because it
contains the `'' character in the words "Can't"

Since
        error "`gettext \"Can't cd to var.\"`"

is correctly extracted, I think we have a problem
with xgettext and the eval_gettext function.
(I changed \$var to var because gettext is to be used without shell variables)

Maybe the shell parser in x-sh.c of the gettext-tools is a bit broken?

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-1-k7
Locale: LANG=it_IT, LC_CTYPE=it_IT

Versions of packages gettext depends on:
ii  gettext-base                0.14.1-5     GNU Internationalization utilities
ii  libc6                       2.3.2.ds1-18 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an

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