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diff --git a/gettext.h b/gettext.h
index 7671d09d04..33696a40b8 100644
--- a/gettext.h
+++ b/gettext.h
@@ -63,6 +63,32 @@ const char *Q_(const char *msgid, const char *plu, unsigned long n)
}
/* Mark msgid for translation but do not translate it. */
+#if !USE_PARENS_AROUND_GETTEXT_N
#define N_(msgid) msgid
+#else
+/*
+ * Strictly speaking, this will lead to invalid C when
+ * used this way:
+ * static const char s[] = N_("FOO");
+ * which will expand to
+ * static const char s[] = ("FOO");
+ * and in valid C, the initializer on the right hand side must
+ * be without the parentheses. But many compilers do accept it
+ * as a language extension and it will allow us to catch mistakes
+ * like:
+ * static const char *msgs[] = {
+ * N_("one")
+ * N_("two"),
+ * N_("three"),
+ * NULL
+ * };
+ * (notice the missing comma on one of the lines) by forcing
+ * a compilation error, because parenthesised ("one") ("two")
+ * will not get silently turned into ("onetwo").
+ */
+#define N_(msgid) (msgid)
+#endif
+
+const char *get_preferred_languages(void);
#endif