GNU bug report logs - #22686
An empty string marked for translation

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Göran Uddeborg <goeran <at> uddeborg.se>

Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2016 19:12:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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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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