bug#26621: hint for translators is missing from POT file, but is opaque anyhow

[Paul Eggert]

On 04/27/2017 10:41 AM, Benno Schulenberg wrote:
> If the note is pedantic, then please leave it out.

OK, done in the attached.


> I suggest to split up the message again and to properly pluralize it.

That would make it harder to translate, no? The idea was to simplify the 
translator's jobs by using SI units.

Instead, how about if we remove the units from the string to be 
translated? That way, translators won't need to worry about whether to 
translate the units. Plus, there won't be any change to the output 
format in the C locale. I did that in the attached.

> If the entirety of that output can have a varying width
> that sometimes gets shorter than it was before, then dd
> should first print that output to a string, record its
> longest length, and then always fill up the string with
> spaces to that length.

dd already does that. This approach does not work in general, though, 
due to the difference between strlen and column counts. But as its 
problems seem to not occur in practice, the attached patch removes the 
confusing translator note about this.

0001-dd-simplify-translator-s-jobs.txt
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