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| -rw-r--r-- | src/argparse.c | 9 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/src/argparse.c b/src/argparse.c index ef0c161..8651e00 100644 --- a/src/argparse.c +++ b/src/argparse.c @@ -2937,7 +2937,7 @@ cmp_ordtbl (const void *a_v, const void *b_v) * this option * - a description which starts with a '@' and is followed by * any other characters is printed as is; this may be used for examples - * and such. This is a legacy methiod, moder codes uses the flags + * and such. This is a legacy method, modern code uses the flags * ARGPARSE_OPT_VERBATIM or ARGPARSE_OPT_HEADER. * - A description which starts with a '|' outputs the string between this * bar and the next one as arguments of the long option. @@ -3000,7 +3000,12 @@ show_help (opttable_t *opts, unsigned int nopts, unsigned int flags) writestrings (0, "Options:", "\n", NULL); for (i=0; i < nopts; i++ ) { - s = map_fixed_string (_( opts[ordtbl[i]].description )); + /* Do not translate the empty string becuase it is used as + * the identification of the PO file. */ + if (opts[ordtbl[i]].description && *opts[ordtbl[i]].description) + s = map_fixed_string (_( opts[ordtbl[i]].description )); + else + s = ""; if ( s && *s== '@' && !s[1] ) /* Hide this line. */ continue; if ( s && (opts[ordtbl[i]].flags & ARGPARSE_OPT_HEADER)) |