Re: Minor bug in df

[Bauke Jan Douma]

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?

bjd