translating "\ No newline at end of file" produces diffs that don't apply

[Ákos Pálfi]

Binary package hint: diffutils

1) Ubuntu Release: 10.04 LTS 64-bit Hungarian

2) diffutils installed version: 1:2.8.1-18

3) Expected: diff tool should generate valid unified diff

4) What happened: The hungarian translation of diff generates wrong diff file, because the diff file contains "\ Nincs újsor a file végén" instead of "\ No newline at end of line".

How to reproduce:
a) install hungarian language pack
b) download and extract attached file
c) open a terminal and navigate to the directory where you extracted the files before
d) set language to hungarian by running: export LANG="hu_HU.utf8"
e) run: diff -rupN services-0.15 services-2.4 > result.diff
f) try to apply this patch by eclipse or patch (does not work)

The string "\ No newline at end of line" should not be translatable.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: diff (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-28.55-generic 2.6.32.27+drm33.12
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-28-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Jan 27 22:32:14 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Beta amd64 (20100318)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=hu_HU.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: diffutils

[Samuel Bronson (naesten)]

Are you *sure* this confuses patch? I can't see why it would; patch has never paid attention to anything but the backslash at the beginning of these lines: <http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/patch.git/tree/pch.c?id=bcce1233902dc7a94623b3a90cd7920c44f22474#n1235>.

(And don't be deceived by any timestamps you might see in the git repository: that's from diff 2.2, released on 1997-04-17.)

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