Re: gettext .mo files and nullentry

[Joachim Metz]

Bruno,

Thanks for the reply.

> The documentation is already present in
>  <http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/html_node/Header-Entry.html>

Great. I was expecting it in the MO section, perhaps the mo section
could refer to the header entry section?

Do you know what policy is for custom entries?

> True, it does not do this check, but this is not a problem, because these
> markers charset=, plural=, nplurals= make no sense in another other part
> of the header.

Personally I would add the check anyway (especially if someone would
consider adding a custom header ;-), but I'll leave it up to you.

> This too is not a problem, because
>  1. the computations are done with 'unsigned long', which wraps around
>     mod 2^32 or 2^64 upon overflow (no abort()),
>  2. nothing bad happens if the plural formula and nplurals value have
>     definitions which make no sense (e.g. "plural=(n+100000000000000)").

Personally I don't think an integer wrap around is preferred
behaviour; again I leave it up to you.

Kind regards,
Joachim