Sven Burgener <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What is the significance of the '_' character in the following usage? > > printf(_("This is fetchmail release %s"), VERSION); > > Why the '_' and why the additional ()'s around the string constant?
Seems that the code is using the GNU gettext library, which handles translation of messages. Have a look at the gettext info pages... moritz -- Moritz Schulte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.chaosdorf.de/moritz/ Debian/GNU supporter - http://www.debian.org/ http://www.gnu.org/ GPG fingerprint = 3A14 3923 15BE FD57 FC06 B501 0841 2D7B 6F98 4199