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Re: Minor bug in df
From: |
Jim Meyering |
Subject: |
Re: Minor bug in df |
Date: |
Mon, 11 Jun 2007 13:09:56 +0200 |
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.