Re: Minor bug in df

[Jim Meyering]

Bauke Jan Douma <address@hidden> wrote:
> Jim Meyering wrote on 10-06-07 21:08:
>> Luke Kendall <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> The column formatting of the plain "df" output is misaligned, making it
>>> hard to read.  Same is true for -P option.  For example:
>> ...
>>> : /home/data/audio; df --version
>>> df (GNU coreutils) 5.96
>>
>> Thanks for the report.
>> That's probably fixed in the latest stable release: coreutils-6.9.
>> If not, please let us know.
>
> This reminds me of something I noticed the other day.
>
> I was briefly experimenting with i18n, specifically nl_NL, and
> noticed some formatting irregularities of the translated header
> of df (translated to Dutch):
>
> (root[21:59:15] ~/emacs> LC_ALL= LANG=nl_NL df
> Bestandssysteem      1K-blokken     Gebruikt Beschikbaar Gebruikt% 
> Aangekoppeld op
> /dev/hda2             64429328  28321052  36108276  44% /
> /dev/hdb1            244992000 128022008 116969992  53% /usr
>
> This hadn't occurred to me before, prob. because I always use
> LC_ALL=C.
>
> Rather than an issue with df itself, I suppose that either
> this is the way to go, or else it's a matter for the translator,
> who needs to do some truncation.
> Correct?

Yes.