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bug#32242: dd help text lacks information about binary prefixes


From: Wodry
Subject: bug#32242: dd help text lacks information about binary prefixes
Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2018 16:42:12 +0200
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Great, nice to hear :)

I did also not like the space, but took it over from the source code of
dd.c. But it looks like this is the only file where this space occurs.

LANG=en_EN.utf8 dd --help

outputs

N and BYTES may be followed by the following multiplicative suffixes:
c =1, w =2, b =512, kB =1000, K =1024, MB =1000*1000, M =1024*1024, xM =M,

But in the translation there is no space:

LANG=de_DE.utf8 dd --help

outputs

N und BYTES können folgende multiplikative Endungen tragen:
c=1, w=2, b=512, kB=1000, K=1024, MB=1000×1000, M=1024×1024, xM=M


In the attached updated patch file I removed the space in the new
addtional notes and in the dd help text.

Best regards



Am 22.07.2018 um 16:04 schrieb Paul Eggert:
> Thanks, this looks good, except I'd omit the space before the equal
> sign, e.g., "KiB=K" rather than "KiB =K". It looks odd to have unequal
> spacing around "=".
> 
> 

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