update reading of loc files (#4495)

Author: gcampbell-msft

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ Bug Fixes:
 - Fix repeat execution option in test presets [#4443](https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-cmake-tools/issues/4443)
 - Fix bug that makes some build hang [#4424](https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-cmake-tools/issues/4424) and [#4465](https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-cmake-tools/issues/4465)
 - Fix issue with switching to presets during Quick Start. [#4409](https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-cmake-tools/issues/4409)
+- Fix bug that shows empty lines in Pinned Commands view. [#4406](https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-cmake-tools/issues/4406)
 
 ## 1.20.53
 

src/util.ts

@@ -612,7 +612,17 @@ export async function getExtensionLocalizedPackageJson(): Promise<{[key: string]
         localizedFilePath = path.join(thisExtensionPath(), "package.nls.json");
     }
     const localizedStrings = fs.readFileSync(localizedFilePath, "utf8");
-    return JSON.parse(localizedStrings);
+
+    // Parse the JSON. Then, some package.nls.json entries have an object with this format:
+    //  { "message": <content>, "comment": [<locComments>]}
+    //  To handle this, we will pull out the content of the "message" field
+    const parseJSON = JSON.parse(localizedStrings);
+    for (const key in parseJSON) {
+        if (parseJSON[key].hasOwnProperty("message")) {
+            parseJSON[key] = parseJSON[key].message;
+        }
+    }
+    return parseJSON;
 }
 
 interface CommandPalette {