A user reported another situation in which that assertion can fail: if
you paste text into the terminal that consists 100% of characters not
available in the CONF_line_codepage character set, then the
translation step generates the empty string as output, and that gets
passed to ldisc_send by term_paste without checking.

Previous bugs of this kind (see commits 4634cd47 and 43a63019)
were fixed by adding a check before calling ldisc_send. But in commit
4634cd47 I said that probably at some point the right fix would be
to remove the assertion in ldisc_send itself, so that passing len==0
becomes legal. (The assertion was there in the first place to catch
cases where len==0 was used with its obsolete special meaning of
signalling 'please update your status'.)

Well, I think it's finally time. The assertion is removed: it's now
legal again to call ldisc_send with an empty buffer, and its meaning
is no longer the archaic special thing, but the trivial one of sending
zero characters through the line discipline.