Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> The issues I was thinking of have come up mainly from the Freeciv lists,
> and concern ordering of substituted output and suchlike things. Does it
> handle the case where in english you see:
> error %s in file %s
> but in some other language the two substitutions are swapped?
ISO C could actually handle this. You change the above to:
file %2$s has error %1$s
(I think that's the right syntax). Most libcs already handle this
properly; it's just a matter of the translators knowing that they can do
this and avoiding printf constructs that make this too hard to do.
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Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
