On Wed, 2025-10-15 at 13:35 +0000, Pollo wrote: > This seems extremely odd to me. How is that possible that changing a > character changes also the spaces?? > > Any help much appreciated.
I think I know what is happening. You are using some locale where the indentation of the help strings in the translation is messed up. When you change that character, now that line of the help no longer matches the translation so gettext returns it untranslated and you get the default (correct) indentation. To prove this, try using the C locale: LC_ALL=C ./make --help If that works, then you'll need to find out what locale you're using: echo $LANG env | grep LC_ and report the problem with the translation to the Translation Project team responsible for translating that locale for GNU Make: https://translationproject.org/domain/make.html
