Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> 
> > > No, so that the translators don't have to worry about getting alignment
> > > right; and also so that they don't have to translate \\d[S+] etc which
> > > obviously doesn't need any translation.
> > 
> > I am thinking we can do:
> > 
> >     fprintf(output, "  \\da[S]   %.9s    %s\n", _("[PATTERN]"), 
> >             _("list aggregate"));
> > 
> > What do you think?
> 
> Right, something like that ... I'm wondering, though, if there are any
> translations where [PATTERN] ends up longer than 9 chars.  At least none
> of the existing translations has that problem, so it seems we're good ...
> 

I probably should have suggested:

        fprintf(output, "  \\da[S]   %-12s %s\n", _("[PATTERN]"), 
                _("list aggregate"));

I am hesistant to use -12.12 because that might cut off a long word, or
a bracket.

The larger question is how does printf(3) handle width, as bytes or
characters.  My Ubuntu says:

       If the converted value has fewer characters than the
       field width, it will be padded with spaces  on  the  left
       (or right, if the left-adjustment flag has been given).

This talks about characters, but is it really multibyte characters?
Alvaro says we have to use %ls, but he says that is wchar_t, which we
don't use.

> Hmm, what's the difference here:
> 
>   \dd      [PATTERN]    show comment for object
>   \dd[S]   [PATTERN]    list comments on objects

I don't know what you're talking about --- LOOK THERE! (removes duplicate
line while no one is looking)

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