[Nano-devel] bug in --help

[Jordi Mallach]

Hey there,

Here's my nasty bug for this release :)

(btw, was it the Silent Release, with no info-nano announcement, or did
I totally miss the 1.3.7 mails?)

    /* This is a special case. */
    print1opt("-a, -b, -e,", "", "");
    print1opt("-f, -g, -j", "", _("(ignored, for Pico compatibility)"));

The first call to print1opt is causing nano to print the translation
header in --help when using a non-English locale.

David, I have installed nano 1.3.7 deb in natura: have a look at the
output of "LANG=ca_ES nano --help".

The problem is print1opt_full() does this at the end:

    printf("%s\n", _(desc));

which, in the case of the "-a, -b, -e" line effectively calls
gettext(""), which is a Bad Idea®, as the empty string is special and
holds the gettext header in every po file. If you try to translate ""
with gettext, you get this ugly header in your output.

Food for 1.3.8. :)

Jordi
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