Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] i18n: mark OPTION_NUMBER (-NUM) for translation

> I somehow suspect that this is going in a direction that makes this
> piece of code much less maintainable.
>
> Look at the entire function and see how many places you do fprintf
> on strings that are marked with _().  short_name and long_name are
> not likely to be translated, but everything else is, especially
> multiple places that show _(opts->help) neither of these patches
> touch.
>
> I wonder if it makes more sense to add a helper function that
> returns the number of column positions (not bytes) with a signature
> similar to fprintf() and use that throughout the function instead.