Btw, you mentioned in the original bug that having this read as "" causes a break in functionality for Opencart CMS. I might suggest that there could be a different issue involved there, and if you're still reproducing it, that it would be better to report the actual broken behavior to Opencart CMS and see if they can give a better diagnosis and assist in getting it reported to the right upstream component.
Btw, you mentioned in the original bug that having this read as "" causes a break in functionality for Opencart CMS. I might suggest that there could be a different issue involved there, and if you're still reproducing it, that it would be better to report the actual broken behavior to Opencart CMS and see if they can give a better diagnosis and assist in getting it reported to the right upstream component.