diff -r 8ce7d725753d scripts/lang_sync
--- a/scripts/lang_sync	Sun Jan 10 19:43:08 2016 +0100
+++ b/scripts/lang_sync	Sat Apr 02 20:44:15 2016 +0200
@@ -644,6 +644,9 @@
         with open(ll.path_name, 'r', encoding = 'utf-8') as handle:
             data = handle.read()
 
+        if len(data) == 0:
+            continue
+
         fields = {'override' : '',
                   'base_language' : blng_value}
         fname = os.path.basename(ll.path_name)