[Pnet-developers] [bug] resgen produces invalid PO files

[Bruno Haible]

Using pnet-0.6.0.

====================== hello.de.resx ==========================
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<root>
  <resheader name="ResMimeType">
    <value>text/microsoft-resx</value>
  </resheader>
  <resheader name="Version">
    <value>1.0.0.0</value>
  </resheader>
  <resheader name="Reader">
    <value>System.Resources.ResXResourceReader, System.Windows.Forms, 
Version=1.0.3102.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089</value>
  </resheader>
  <resheader name="Writer">
    <value>System.Resources.ResXResourceWriter, System.Windows.Forms, 
Version=1.0.3102.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089</value>
  </resheader>
  <data name="Hello World!">
    <value>Hallo &quot;Welt!&quot;</value>
  </data>
</root>
================================================================

$ resgen hello.de.resx de.po
$ cat de.po
msgid "Hello World!"
msgstr "Hallo "Welt!""
$ msgcat de.po
de.po:2: keyword "Welt" unknown
de.po:2:20: syntax error
msgcat: found 2 fatal errors

The PO file format is specified in the GNU gettext documentation, section
'PO Files' and 'Header Entry'. Special characters need to be escaped when
put into PO files.

In this case, when outputting a double-quote inside a string, it should
be preceded by an extra backslash.