[bug #66624] xgettext, msgcat, msgfmt, etc. should support strings with embedded NUL characters

[Bruno Haible]

Follow-up Comment #1, bug #66624 (group gettext):

There are two problems:

1) The NUL bytes are currently used for the implementation of plurals (both in
the msgid and msgstr parts of a message).

2) In libintl, the __hash_string function stops at the first NUL. Therefore
the table with the hash codes is not compatible with a lookup that would take
the entire string as key.

In order to fix these problems, redesign of the plurals mechanism would be
needed, and most likely also a new major version of .mo files — which could
be hard to push into glibc.


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