On 2024-04-12 Bruno Haible wrote: > How to reproduce: > 1. Build GNU tar (1.33 or 1.35, for example). > 2. Install it. > 3. You can see misindentation: > $ LC_ALL=de_DE.UTF-8 src/tar --help > > ... > abzubilden > --mode=ÄNDERUNGEN den (symbolischen) Modus ÄNDERUNGEN für > hinzugefügte Dateien erzwingen [...] > In other words, it should use the Gnulib module 'mbswidth'.
This is one of the issues. The other one is with the wrapping of the description text. It counts 1 byte == 1 column but in languages which mostly use non-ASCII chars it can be mostly 2 bytes == 1 column. Then the wrapping occurs far too early, resulting in narrow output. -- Lasse Collin
