problem building .gmo files in tar build

[David Caplan]

I ran into this problem building tar-1.13.19 on the latest lsm-SELinux
kernel package on a RedHat 7.2 base.  The problem appears to be with
/usr/bin/msgfmt (version 0.10.38 in RedHat7.2) and building the ko.gmo and
ja.gmo files from their respective .po files.  /usr/bin/msgfmt version
0.10.35, which was in RedHat7.1 does build them correctly.  I also built the
newest version of msgfmt (0.11.2) and still had the same problems when
building tar.

I don't know if the problem is with the ka.po and ja.po files in the
tar-1.13.19 distro, or with msgfmt.  The problem is with the 'ç' in François
Pinard's name in the .po files. I noticed that it is in both lines in ko.po
file, but in the ja.po it is a "regular" 'c' in his name in the second line.
When I replace them with plain 'c' both files build fine.

The errors I got were (running make within the tar/po directory):

address@hidden po]# make
file=./`echo ja | sed 's,.*/,,'`.gmo \
  && rm -f $file && PATH=../src:$PATH /usr/bin/msgfmt -o $file ja.po
ja.po:1392:17: invalid multibyte sequence
msgfmt: found 1 fatal error
make: *** [ja.gmo] Error 1

and

address@hidden po]# make
file=./`echo ko | sed 's,.*/,,'`.gmo \
  && rm -f $file && PATH=../src:$PATH /usr/bin/msgfmt -o $file ko.po
ko.po:1431:17: invalid multibyte sequence
ko.po:1434:6: invalid multibyte sequence
msgfmt: found 2 fatal errors
make: *** [ko.gmo] Error 1

Like I said, I don't know whether to attribute the "bug" to the .po files or
to msgfmt.

David Caplan
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