Re: Minor comments on messages

[Jim Meyering]

Stéphane Raimbault wrote:
> I've spotted these minor comments during the French translation:
>
> A space is missing between the sort and the long option.
> #: src/pr.c:2837
> msgid ""
> "  -s[CHAR],--separator[=CHAR]\n"

Thanks.
That is worth fixing.  The fix in pr.c will improve the
mark-up for the automatically generated pr.1.
Do you feel like writing the tiny patch?  If so, here are guidelines:
  http://git.sv.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/plain/HACKING

> This line doesn't use all the width space available (80 columns).
> #: src/pr.c:2869
> msgid ""
> "\n"
> "-t is implied if PAGE_LENGTH <= 10.  With no FILE, or when\n"
> "FILE is -, read standard input.\n"

It would be fine to adjust that, too.

> I could be convenient for translators to have a comment about the
> translation of 'df'
>
> All strings must have the same length as the original

Good idea.

> #: src/df.c:151
> msgid "Filesystem    Type"
>
> All translations must end aligned on the original ones.
> #: src/df.c:156
> #, c-format
> msgid "    Inodes   IUsed   IFree IUse%%"
> msgstr "    Inodes   IUtil.  ILib. IUti%%"

If you do this, you're welcome to do it as a single
patch or as 3 separate ones.  Either way is fine.

Or say you're not interested and I'll do it.