Re: [Libexif-devel] [libexif-cvs] libexif/libexif exif-entry.c, 1.115, 1.116 exif-tag.c, 1.38, 1.39

[Jan P. <pa...@pi...>]

Hi Dan,

Thank you for the explanations. I don't have gettext ;)
I was curious because your changes really looked unnecessary.

 -- Jan

> On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 03:11:25PM +0100, Jan Patera wrote:
>> this is weird. Can you specify "strangely"? How come we didn't have
>> such problems in the past?
>
> It's a documented "bug" in gettext: "When an empty string is used for
> msgid, the functions may return a nonempty string."  I suspect it was
> added in a misguided attempt to be a feature, because the nonempty
> string it returns is actually the header from the .po file listing the
> translator, translation date, etc.   You can see if by reverting the
> patch and running
>
>   exif --tag=InteroperabilityVersion --ifd=Interoperability -s
>
> I saw it in gtkam, too, before this patch.
>
> I'm not completely positive why it didn't show up before.  Now that you
> mention it, the description in cases like this used to duplicate the
> title instead--now it's blank.  I'm not sure where that behaviour has
> changed.
>
>>>> Dan