Thomas Rast <tr...@student.ethz.ch> writes:

> Junio C Hamano <gits...@pobox.com> writes:
>
>> Thomas Rast <tr...@student.ethz.ch> writes:
>>
>>> The gettext .po files have a header, but it looks like the translation
>>> specification for an empty string.  This results in _("") actually
>>> returning that header.
>>
>> Thanks; this is a tricky bit to catch and makes me wonder where else
>> we have a similar breakage.
>>
>> Perhaps we would want to do this instead?  I dunno.
>>
>>  gettext.h | 2 ++
>>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git i/gettext.h w/gettext.h
>> index 57ba8bb..376297b 100644
>> --- i/gettext.h
>> +++ w/gettext.h
>> @@ -44,6 +44,8 @@ extern int use_gettext_poison(void);
>>  
>>  static inline FORMAT_PRESERVING(1) const char *_(const char *msgid)
>>  {
>> +    if (!*msgid)
>> +            return "";
>>      return use_gettext_poison() ? "# GETTEXT POISON #" : gettext(msgid);
>>  }
>
> Oh, I forgot that we actually had a wrapper instead of the usual _.
> Yes, I think that would be the better solution to guard against this.

OK, then let's replace the patch text of your commit ;-).
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