[debbugs-tracker] bug#22686: closed (An empty string marked for translation)

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> An empty string marked for translation
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> Mon, 15 Feb 2016 20:10:52 +0100
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> On line 955 of src/stty.c there is an empty string marked for
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>           fputs (_("\
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> This might actually be harmful.  Po files use the translation of the
> empty string as a header.  So depending on the gettext implementation,
> it might be replaced by a header which I'm sure isn't intended.
> (Maybe GNU gettext guards against this, I haven't investigated.  But
> even if so, it is still pretty pointless to mark it for translation.)
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> On 15/02/16 11:10, Göran Uddeborg wrote:
> > On line 955 of src/stty.c there is an empty string marked for
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> >         fputs (_("\
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> > This might actually be harmful.  Po files use the translation of the
> > empty string as a header.  So depending on the gettext implementation,
> > it might be replaced by a header which I'm sure isn't intended.
> > (Maybe GNU gettext guards against this, I haven't investigated.  But
> > even if so, it is still pretty pointless to mark it for translation.)
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> Ouch it does output the header when translating (so not for English).
> I pushed the fix in your name:
> http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=commitdiff;h=v8.25-6-g222e830
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> thanks!
> Pádraig.
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