free output in german translation line up wrong colums

[Andreas Kostyrka]

Notice how the free column for swap shows 0 in the german translation.

andreas@asterix:~$ free -m
              gesamt benutzt frei gemns. Puffer/Cache verfügbar
Speicher: 15963 4934 7144 1119 3884 9779
Auslagerungsspeicher: 7981 0 7981
andreas@asterix:~$ LANG=C free -m
              total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 15963 4935 7142 1119 3886 9778
Swap: 7981 0 7981
andreas@asterix:~$ free
              gesamt benutzt frei gemns. Puffer/Cache verfügbar
Speicher: 16346836 5051476 7317744 1144548 3977616 10017704
Auslagerungsspeicher: 8173408 0 8173408
andreas@asterix:~$ LANG=C free
              total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 16346836 5052300 7316848 1144292 3977688 10017188
Swap: 8173408 0 8173408

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: procps 2:3.3.10-4ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-22.39-generic 4.4.8
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-22-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Fri May 13 10:14:05 2016
InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-04-22 (21 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20160420.1)
SourcePackage: procps
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Andreas Kostyrka (andreas-kostyrka)]

added the output again as an attachment because the variable width display of the output is not helpful.

Basically, one useful idea would be to check the length of the translations when outputting, and either complain or cut off the translation.

For free the columnar output is more relevant if the label is complete.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Nirro (nirro)]

This can be seen in the spanish translation. The output table support is messy depending on the length of the header strings.

[William Andrea (wjandrea)]

Affects the French translation too.