Item10346: MAKETEXT renders 0 if arg is empty

Priority:	CurrentState:	AppliesTo:	Component:	WaitingFor:
Normal	Closed	Engine	I18N, MAKETEXT

Let's say I have a combination of MAKETEXT and FORMFIELD, and the field returns an empty string (because the field is empty):

%MAKETEXT{"Component:[_1]" args="%FORMFIELD{"Component"}%"}%

renders as:

Component:I18N

For some reason MAKETEXT inserts zeroes for missing arguments, and it is even documented in the code: "fill omitted args with zeros" in MAKETEXT.pm line 32.

Why not empty strings?

-- ArthurClemens - 12 Feb 2011