Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
> Maybe, but my current mode of operation is "do it really simple and
> stupid now, solicit complaints later".
>
> Eventually I'd rather just eliminate the need for tweaking stuff like
> that by having some va_args function that spews out "16" for that
> given a bunch of arguments, i.e. (pseudocode):
>
> int width = gimme_longest(
> _("both deleted:"),
> _("added by us:"),
> _("deleted by them:"),
> _("added by them:"),
> _("deleted by us:"),
> _("both added:"),
> _("both modified:")
> );
>
> char *fmt = concat("%-", width + 4, "s%s\n");
> printf(fmt, ...)
Using %-*s%s like that does sound nice, but then I have to wonder
about the 4. Maybe the space-constrained translator would want to
decrease the margin to 2.
Which is why "when the output is intended for humans, let translators
do whatever they want" seems to me like the simplest principle to
follow. But you're right that it doesn't matter much and we can
always wait for bug reports.
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