Re: [XBoard-devel] Refactored master

[Byrial Jensen]

Den 10-04-2012 20:43, address@hidden skrev:
> Now that internationalization works, I could see that some label 
> widgets in the Engine Output window got a disastrous height, because 
> they specified an empty string (which apparently translates to a huge 
> multi-line thing).

An empty string is "translated" to the header from the po file with 
typically 12 text lines of info about the file.

>  Anyway, I fixed that too now, by giving the icon widgets a text of a 
> single space. (I guess I could have put an explicit test for emptiness 
> suppressing the translation in the code as well, but this was simpler.) 

I would avoid calling gettext() with anything not intended to to translated.