#23196: Don't translate empty string as gettext metadata
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Reporter: nedbatchelder | Owner: nobody
Type: Uncategorized | Status: new
Component: Internationalization | Version: master
Severity: Normal | Keywords:
Triage Stage: Unreviewed | Has patch: 0
Easy pickings: 0 | UI/UX: 0
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(this is very similar to #11363)
If you pass an empty string to django.utils.translation.ugettext, it
returns the metadata from the translations file. I know that this is the
GNU gettext behavior, but honestly, I can't imagine a use for it.
This is a problem when you have a string which can be overridden by a
user, but usually is not, and the default value for the string is
translated. If the user enters an empty string, ugettext returns the
metadata. Surprise!
Of course, an option is to check the string before calling ugettext, but
this is an easy step to overlook, especially because it is conceptually
unnecessary. It would be great if Django's wrappers for gettext would do
the obvious thing and return an empty string if asked to translate an
empty string.
For a low-level library, it could make sense to get the metadata with
gettext(""), but how would you reasonably use that in Django? And ffs,
why didn't they just make a function to get the metadata if people wanted
metadata? :)
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