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[Olivier Tilloy <olivier.tilloy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I can reproduce the error in a xenial VM, not in a bionic one.

** Changed in: gettext (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Fix Released

** Also affects: gettext (Ubuntu Xenial)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Changed in: gettext (Ubuntu Xenial)
       Status: New => Confirmed

** Changed in: gettext (Ubuntu Xenial)
   Importance: Undecided => Low

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Title:
   msgfmt produces  invalid UTF-8 sequences for desktop files

Status in gettext package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in gettext source package in Xenial:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  VIM has recently added support for validating gnome desktop files and
  this is reporting  errors due to invalid UTF-8 sequences produced by
  msgfmt.

  Steps to reproduce:
  1. Checkout rev 1253704 from the VIM git repo on GitHub - https://github.com/vim/vim
  2. Run ./configure in the repo to set up the build environment.
  2. Change to the po directory in the repo - cd src/po
  3. Process and validate the gvim desktop file using the Makefile -

  $ make gvim.desktop
  msgfmt --desktop -d . --template gvim.desktop.in -o tmp_gvim.desktop
  rm -f LINGUAS
  if command -v desktop-file-validate; then desktop-file-validate tmp_gvim.desktop; fi
  /usr/bin/desktop-file-validate
  tmp_gvim.desktop: warning: file contains lines that are not UTF-8 encoded. There is no guarantee the validator will correctly work.
  [Invalid UTF-8] tmp_gvim.desktop: error: value "\xe0\xac\xaa\xe0\xac\xbe\xe0\xac\xa0\xe0\xad\x8d\xe0\xac\xaf \xe0\xac\xab\xe0\xac\xbe\xe0\xac\x87\xe0\xac\xb2\xe0\xac\x97\xe0\xad\x81\xe0\xac\xa1\xe0\xac\xbc\xe0\xac\xbf\xe0\xac\x95\xe0\xad\x81 \xe0\xac\xb8\xe0\xac\xae\xe0\xad\x8d\xe0\xac\xaa\xe0\xac\xbe\xe0\xac\xa6\xe0\xac\xa8 \xe0\xac\x95\xe0\xac\xb0\xe0\xac\xa8\xe0\xad\x8d\xe0\xac\xa4\xe0\xad" for locale string key "Comment[or]" in group "Desktop Entry" contains invalid UTF-8 characters, locale string values should be encoded in UTF-8
  Makefile:176: recipe for target 'gvim.desktop' failed
  make: *** [gvim.desktop] Error 1

  The template file has valid UTF-8 sequences so no errors are expected.
  The error is correct as the generated desktop file has a truncated 3
  byte UTF-8 sequence at the end of the line as reported.  The problem
  is msgfmt is emitting an invalid UTF-8 sequence for this one line.

  This is happening  on an up to date 16.04 LTS -

  $ apt list gettext desktop-file-utils
  Listing... Done
  desktop-file-utils/xenial-updates,now 0.22-1ubuntu5.2 i386 [installed]
  gettext/xenial-updates,xenial-security,now 0.19.7-2ubuntu3.1 i386 [installed]

  There has been some discussion of this issue on the VIM developers
  mailing list -
  https://groups.google.com/d/msg/vim_dev/yYGCsJJPlA0/i1PNO_46AgAJ

  A candidate patch for the issue from upstream for the gettext package has been identified -
  https://groups.google.com/d/msg/vim_dev/yYGCsJJPlA0/6yAEzO9LAgAJ

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
  Package: gettext 0.19.7-2ubuntu3.1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-51.55~16.04.1-generic 4.15.18
  Uname: Linux 4.15.0-51-generic i686
  ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.18
  Architecture: i386
  CurrentDesktop: Unity
  Date: Fri Jun  7 10:30:31 2019
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2019-02-05 (121 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.04.5 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release i386 (20180731)
  SourcePackage: gettext
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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