? views-414074.patch
Index: plugins/views_plugin_display.inc
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RCS file: /cvs/drupal-contrib/contributions/modules/views/plugins/views_plugin_display.inc,v
retrieving revision 1.18
diff -u -p -r1.18 views_plugin_display.inc
--- plugins/views_plugin_display.inc	7 Jan 2009 23:31:13 -0000	1.18
+++ plugins/views_plugin_display.inc	6 Apr 2009 22:16:15 -0000
@@ -554,7 +554,7 @@ class views_plugin_display extends views
       $text = '<span>' . $text . '</span>';
     }
 
-    if (empty($text)) {
+    if (empty(trim($text))) {
       $text = t('Broken field');
     }