A bug has been opened in the Gettext bug tracker about this issue: https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?49654
In my opinion (as former Gettext maintainer) the fix ought to go into msgfmt, not xgettext. The gettext.diff.txt patch from https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=792687 is therefore the wrong approach, IMO. Bruno
