Re: msgconv: conversion failure

[Bruno Haible]

Denis Barbier wrote:

> a French translator for Debian processed a bunch of PO files with msgconv
> and encountered the following error message:
>   msgconv: conversion failure
> 
> This problem appears for instance with this file
>   
> http://ftp-master.debian.org/~barbier/l10n/material/po/unstable/main/d/dpkg/po/dpkg_1.10.10_fr.po.gz

Thanks for reporting this; apparently you're the first one to make use of a
single msgstr larger than 4 KB. This patch fixes it.

Bruno

*** gettext-0.11.5/src/msgl-iconv.c.bak 2002-05-22 14:32:52.000000000 +0200
--- gettext-0.11.5/src/msgl-iconv.c     2003-05-10 01:06:20.000000000 +0200
***************
*** 100,106 ****
  
        if (res == (size_t)(-1))
          {
!           if (errno == EINVAL)
              break;
            else
              return -1;
--- 100,108 ----
  
        if (res == (size_t)(-1))
          {
!           if (errno == E2BIG)
!             ;
!           else if (errno == EINVAL)
              break;
            else
              return -1;