On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 9:54 PM, Nagy Gabor<ng...@bibl.u-szeged.hu> wrote: > > What is wrong with printf(_(" [installed]"));? > > For my taste, printing [installed] when I have _older version_ > installed, a bit strange. In this case [installed: 2.0-1] would be > better (but harder to parser). >
Afaik, it is always safer to avoid putting non-fixed strings as the first argument of printf. if a bogus translation put some format strings as the translation of installed, it could do weird things.