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L_NONE is used on several places. E.g. twice when writing a private message, once for the topic icon and also in the imageset administration.
But there may be the need to translage 'None' in different manner depending on the content. For German:
None (user) => "Kein Benutzer" or "Keiner"
None (icon/image) => "Kein Icon" or "Keines"

I would say this will have to be "won't fix" and for all translations other than English will have to use a "context neutral" adverb/pronoun. Grammatic genders and other such inflections will just have to fall by the wayside.

Unfortunately there is no neutral way of saying this, so that's not really an option. I think we should use more specific language strings than just L_NONE, and rather always have L_NONE_X / L_NO_X where X is user (PM) or image (imagesets) or template ...