Learn keys dialog: Poorly translatable

[egmontkob]

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Midnight Commander version and build configuration

4.8.33, git

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Is this issue reproducible using the latest version of Midnight Commander?

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How to reproduce

LANGUAGE=da mc shown here, but quite a few other languages also have similar problems:

Visual overflows, the OK label overwriting the label etc...

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English is typically more dense than other languages, translations usually increase the string width. This should somehow be taken into account.

Maybe rearrange all the keys into a single scrollable column?

(Disadvantage being that you may not see if you press a key and its "OK" appears. But that's going to be a fundamental problem anyway in #5027, no matter what the final choice of UI will be.)

As for the instructions, do we by any chance have a label widget that wraps the text to fit? And can we reasonably adjust the big dialog's height to accommodate this widget? Or maybe just add an extra empty line in English to leave room for translations? Also add a comment to translators not to exceed a certain width?

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[GfEW]

Also add a comment to translators not to exceed a certain width?

This sounds reasonable to me. mc uses compacted language / shorthands / symbols at many places for good.

Main point here is to uniquely identify each key.