From cc051544f95501c7a24da2b78a511963a71d61ad Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nick O'Leary <nick.oleary@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 17 May 2019 16:32:14 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Only NLS status text that starts with a letter Fixes #2128

---
 packages/node_modules/@node-red/editor-client/src/js/red.js | 6 ++----
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/packages/node_modules/@node-red/editor-client/src/js/red.js b/packages/node_modules/@node-red/editor-client/src/js/red.js
index 011b5b8d7..2c71af8ed 100644
--- a/packages/node_modules/@node-red/editor-client/src/js/red.js
+++ b/packages/node_modules/@node-red/editor-client/src/js/red.js
@@ -347,10 +347,8 @@ var RED = (function() {
             var parts = topic.split("/");
             var node = RED.nodes.node(parts[1]);
             if (node) {
-                if (msg.hasOwnProperty("text")) {
-                    if (msg.text[0] !== ".") {
-                        msg.text = node._(msg.text.toString(),{defaultValue:msg.text.toString()});
-                    }
+                if (msg.hasOwnProperty("text") && /^[a-zA-Z]/.test(msg.text)) {
+                    msg.text = node._(msg.text.toString(),{defaultValue:msg.text.toString()});
                 }
                 node.status = msg;
                 node.dirty = true;