Concatenation of 'untranslated-string' and 'translated-string' (string) on the same line does not seem to work well

[schilive]

This may not be a useful issue because I suspect this is undefined behaviour by xgettext/msgfmt.

The following translation string was interpreted different from expected by POEdit (Windows version 3.9 (7905), free version), as Ola " "Mundo!, when I'd expect Ola, Mundo!. I'd expect it because when compiling the PO file with this translation to MO with msgfmt (version 0.21), it was interpreted as such. Also, this is in accordance to C strings, which are the base of PO/POT strings syntax.

This also happened with msgstr "Ola ""Mundo!", interpreted by msgfmt as Ola, Mundo!, but Ola ""Mundo! by POEdit.

msgid "Hello, world!"
msgstr "Ola " "Mundo!"

[vslavik]

I can’t say either way; It’s not wholly unreasonable expectation, but it’s not a normal file either. Feel free to submit a PR.

OTOH thinking about the various invalid files in the wild, unescaped ” is probably more common (happened a few times vs. this issue being literally the first in 20+ years).

P.S. Weird issues like this are better when they come with a back story (why have such files, how it happened, what produced it, etc.) — makes it easier to judge the importance.