How to I mark an empty translation (msgstr) as translated in po gettext files?

Question

I found that is the translation for a string (msgid) is empty all gettext tools will consider the string as untranslated.

Is there a workaround for this? I do want to ha

Answer 1

I have had the same problem for a long time, and I actually don't think you can at all. My best option was to insert a comment so I could mark it "translated" from there:

# No translation needed / Translated
msgid "This is a string"
msgstr ""

So far, it's been by best workaround :/ If you do end up finding a way, please post!