Op 25-01-2026 om 22:08 schreef Pádraig Brady:
Another existing issue I noticed in a few places in hu.po (and some other translations), is inadequate separation between the --option and description.
Well, I sometimes choose to use just one space when otherwise there is not enough room for the description to fit (in 80 columns) or to align nicely with the surrounding ones. So I think it should be the prerogative of the translator to layout their texts as they see fit. (With the new format -- option and description on separate lines -- there will seldom be a need for the translator to choose an adjusted layout, and the problem with too few spaces will probably go away.)
This will impact man page layout if one was generating those for various languages.
Are there actually any man pages generated from --help texts?
Also it would impact the new option highlighting in --help.
Can that highlighting not be made to work when there is only one space between option and description?
The following sed tweaks all the po files appropriately. Benno, is this something you might run when updating the po set?
I do not want to change any formatting that the translators probably consciously chose.
Or maybe this is more appropriate to enforce in coreutils when importing new translations ?
Same thing: I don't think coreutils should change anything in the PO files provided by translators. -- Regards, Benno
