Translate wont works when file havent comment lines#:?

[gilbertogwa]

Why the translate works only when POs files have comments lines (with #: characters )? Can you update documments with this information? Apps that generates POs files don't include comments by default...

Won't works:

msgid "I am a text"
msgstr ""

Works:

#:
msgid "I am a text"
msgstr ""

[calway]

Seems I ran into this when testing a console app as well. After adding these and changing nothing else in the sample from @ajbeaven it suddenly worked

[turquoiseowl]

Closing. Please re-open is appropriate. Thanks.

[adrinr]

I ran into this problem, po files don't work if the optional comments don't exist. Would be possible to re-open the issue and to have a look?

[turquoiseowl]

Happy to re-open. As to investigating, I can't commit to anything just now.

Please feel free to submit a PR with fix. Thanks.

[vhatuncev]

@turquoiseowl this can be closed.