Re: [XaraXtreme-dev] Blank msgids in po file

[Markus Nerding <m.nerding@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 16:02 09.06.2006, you wrote:
> Neil,
>
> > Looking at the po file, the first msgid is an empty string and the
> > second is a space (see below).
> >
> > Is it straightforward for us to change these 2 id's so they contain at
> > least 1 non-whitespace char or are they like this for a good reason?
> >
> > msgid   ""
> > msgstr  "Project-Id-Version: PACKAGE VERSION\n"
> >         "Report-Msgid-Bugs-To: bugs@xxxxxxxx\n"
> >         "POT-Creation-Date: 2006-06-09 12:05+0100\n"
> >         "PO-Revision-Date: YEAR-MO-DA HO:MI+ZONE\n"
> >         "Last-Translator: FULL NAME <EMAIL@ADDRESS>\n"
> >         "Language-Team: LANGUAGE <LL@xxxxxx>\n"
> >         "MIME-Version: 1.0\n"
> >         "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8\n"
> >         "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\n"
>
> That one is deliberate. An empty message ID is reserved explicitly for
> this purpose. I can't see this will be confusing his tools. xgettext
> itself generates this.
>
> > msgid   " "
> > msgstr  ""
>
> That's what I translate empty strings to. I bet this one is the culprit. I
> can drop them instead if you like. Can you file a bug please so I don't
> forget to fix it. In the mean time, all he need do is delete this string
> (I hope).
>
> Alex

Unfortunately my tool (Passolo) does not like the first empty one. 
The "space" one is ok. So is it a fact that the empty one is ok by 
definition of the format? Then I will ask the Passolo developers to fix that.

Markus