Re: ls - French translation of N_("%b %e %Y")

[Eric Blake]

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According to Stéphane Raimbault on 3/14/2009 6:57 PM:
> Hi,
> 
> It's not possible to translate this string in French and to keep the
> columns aligned because in French the month abbreviations are variable
> from 3 to 5 characters:

GNU strftime obeys POSIX 2008, and thus allows for width modifiers.
Therefore, you can write things like %5b to write the month abbreviation
that will occupy 5 spaces, which takes care of adding extra spacing for
short months while still allowing the a fixed-width date string to have
nice overall alignment.  However, if all of the entries have a short
month, it still results in a larger spacing in the middle of the date, but
I'm not sure how easy it would be to patch the code to handle
adaptive-width date strings.

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Eric Blake             address@hidden
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