Karl Berry wrote:
Another thing worth mentioning is that it is better to limit strings
to be translated to one number argument per sentence unit (i.e.
"Searched %d directories. Found %d files" or "Searched %d
directories and found %d files" rather than "Found %d files in %d
directories") as some languages may prefer to express the arguments in
reverse order ("In %d directories found %d files"), which printf would
probably not take kindly to.
Actually, in reasonably recent versions of printf, this is handled
via "... %2$d ... %1$d...". That syntax was added specifically for
this issue. printf libraries that do not support this are now very
old. If you care about such systems, there are add-on libraries about
that you can include with your project sources that handle this
correctly.
Cheers - Bruce
