`Get("")` is returning all headers about gotext HOT 4 CLOSED

I'd say, let's figure out what gettext does with an empty string and try to replicate. BUT, not sure on changing current behavior due to backwards compatibility, in case somebody is using Get("") to obtain the headers.

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well, looks like that is indeed expected behavior from gnu gettext: https://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/gettext.html#MO-Files:~:text=as%20the%20empty%20string%20in%20a%20PO%20file%20GNU%20gettext%20is%20usually%20translated%20into%20some%20system%20information%20attached%20to%20that%20particular%20MO%20file%2C%20and%20the%20empty%20string%20necessarily%20becomes%20the%20first%20in%20both%20the%20original%20and%20translated%20tables%2C%20making%20the%20system%20information%20very%20easy%20to%20find.

it's quite inconvenient tho, but I guess most of times, the expected usage here is always inline the message you want to translate instead of passing it as a variable.

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I understand this lib is trying to align with gettext, just wondering if it's a reasonable ask to provide a global config to disable the "" -> meta behavior ? we can still have it false by default so its backward compatible

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I'll reject this one as I prefer to stick to gettext compatibility rather than general usage. There may be many edge cases like yours for implementations of this package, we can't always cover every case, but provide tools for them to adapt.
You should be able to wrap Get calls, or have general filters in place to safely use empty vars with this package.

You can also remove the headers from your (deployed) translation files, so Get("") returns "", as it seems you don't use these headers in your code at all.

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