[Freeciv-Dev] Re: ideas for some i18n problems

[Egbert Hinzen <egbert@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, David Pfitzner wrote:

> Egbert Hinzen <egbert@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 
> > If you have sentence like   "%s has %d Settler."
> > you can change the %places  "%2$d Settler are owned by %1$s".
> 
> Yeah, that's sort of what the docs I saw said.  My confusion was 
> that for this to work, the printf family of functions would have
> to support this, and I had not known of such support.  But I now
> notice this is explicitly documented for various systems' sprintf;
> (eg http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi).
> 
> So my question is, is such support standard, and/or ubiquitous?
> (Though its so useful I guess we use it where necessary anyway,
> and bad luck if some old systems can't use NLS support as a result.)

Following the gettext info, it is.
> 
> > But AFAIK if you start with s.th. like "%2d: %s of %s." you can not change
> > that. (I tried it and it compiles fine and all runs until this message
> > should be displayed - then at least the server crashes.
> 
> Hmm, following test prog worked fine for me:

I will try it again with another piece of the sources...

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