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An empty string marked for translation

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From: Göran Uddeborg <goeran <at> uddeborg.se>
To: bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org
Subject: An empty string marked for translation
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2016 20:10:52 +0100

On line 955 of src/stty.c there is an empty string marked for
translation.

	  fputs (_("\
    "), stdout);

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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From: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>
To: Göran Uddeborg <goeran <at> uddeborg.se>,
 22686-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#22686: An empty string marked for translation
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2016 13:10:40 -0800

On 15/02/16 11:10, Göran Uddeborg wrote:
> On line 955 of src/stty.c there is an empty string marked for
> translation.
> 
> 	  fputs (_("\
>     "), stdout);
> 
> 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.)

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

thanks!
Pádraig.

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From: Göran Uddeborg <goeran <at> uddeborg.se>
To: 22686 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#22686: closed (Re: bug#22686: An empty string marked for
 translation)
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2016 22:32:37 +0100

> bug introduced in coreutils-8.24

Already in 8.24?  Right, it does happen to my system coreutils (Fedora
23).  I assumed it was a new mistake, so I never checked that.  (And
it shows that gettext does not guard aginst it.)

But good to have it fixed either way. :-)

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