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Then it's not a localisation issue, but a code issue. The code I saw meant to prevent this.
The code checks whether the message is - or empty. However we have old translation of this message which are not empty: http://translatewiki.net/w/i.php?title=Special:Translations&message=MediaWiki:Recentchangestext