Re: Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: This makes all the \dX commands (most importantly to most: \df)

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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