I'd like to export a list of all translation strings with `drush locale:export en | msguniq -`.
However, `msquniq` fails with a fatal error due to duplication of the empty string msgid:
$ ./bin/drush locale:export en | msguniq
: warning: Charset missing in header.
Message conversion to user's charset will not work.
:4632: duplicate message definition...
:4: ...this is the location of the first definition
msguniq: found 1 fatal error
$ ./bin/drush locale:export en | head -6 # Global translation of ........... # msgid "" msgstr "" "Project-Id-Version: PROJECT VERSION\n" "POT-Creation-Date: 2021-07-08 10:28+0000\n" testing@xpc:~/src$
and the lines 4632-4633
$ ./bin/drush locale:export en | head -4633 | tail -2 msgid "" msgstr ""
Not sure HOW the empty message string got in, so no steps to reproduce available.
This issue is identical to the report in https://www.drupal.org/project/drupal/issues/1940436 → - so apparently there's a general pattern, spanning generations that this problem "returns".
So it's most likely something trivial like "import doesn't check whether msgid is empty :-p
- Never export the empty string at the API level
- Change the data model or API to raise a violation when trying to store the equivalent of an empty string for source.
Needs work
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