From: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2010 11:32:47 GMT
Subject: Re: Buglet in i18n?
Message-ID: <AANLkTi=Q91mQ9ucLZw1E+1MuA+niXJFvmx1xw8JVYuuH@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20101022083450.GA8289@burratino>

On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 08:34, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> wrote:
> Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
>
>>         gettext () {
>>             printf "%s" "$1"
>>         }
>>
>>         eval_gettext () {
>>             gettext_eval="printf '%s' \"$1\""
>>             printf "%s" "`eval \"$gettext_eval\"`"
>>         }
>
> This looks wrong.  Consider a simplified example:
>
>        eval_gettext 'foo "bar baz"'
>
> Now eval_gettext is supposed to just interpolate $variable
> substitutions, right?  In particular, the quotation marks
> ought to be preserved.
>
> But instead, what gets evaluated is:
>
>        printf '%s' "foo "bar baz""
>
> which splits as
>
>        printf '%s' 'foo bar' 'baz'
>
> which is equivalent to
>
>        printf '%s' 'foo bar'
>        printf '%s' 'baz'
>
> with output
>
>        foo barbaz

Indeed. It's a bug.

> Maybe something like this would do it?
>
>        gettext_eval=$(
>                printf '%s\n' "$1" |
>                sed '
>                        s/[`\\"]/\\&/g
>                        1 s/^/printf "%s" "/
>                        $ s/$/"/
>                '
>        ) &&
>        eval "$gettext_eval"

That prints:

    foo "bar baz"

(with double quotes)

But what we want is:

    foo bar baz

But what we're getting is:

    foo barbaz

Have I got that right, sorry, not thinking clearly right now :)