Re: msgfmt -cv aborts with no message at all

[Bruno Haible]

PS: A better fix is this one. It leads to:

$ msgfmt minicom-2.1.pot 
minicom-2.1.pot:971:68: ungültige Multibyte-Sequenz
msgfmt: es ist 1 fataler Fehler aufgetreten

diff -c -3 -r1.7 -r1.9
*** gettext-tools/src/po-lex.c  9 Sep 2003 13:40:36 -0000       1.7
--- gettext-tools/src/po-lex.c  11 Sep 2003 17:07:33 -0000      1.9
***************
*** 510,518 ****
              if (outbytes == 0)
                abort ();
              /* Convert it from UTF-8 to UCS-4.  */
              mbc->uc_valid = true;
-             if (u8_mbtouc (&mbc->uc, scratchbuf, outbytes) != outbytes)
-               abort ();
              break;
            }
        }
--- 510,525 ----
              if (outbytes == 0)
                abort ();
              /* Convert it from UTF-8 to UCS-4.  */
+             if (u8_mbtouc (&mbc->uc, scratchbuf, outbytes) < outbytes)
+               {
+                 /* scratchbuf contains an out-of-range Unicode character
+                    (> 0x10ffff).  */
+                 if (signal_eilseq)
+                   po_gram_error (_("invalid multibyte sequence"));
+                 mbc->uc_valid = false;
+                 break;
+               }
              mbc->uc_valid = true;
              break;
            }
        }