[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#12932) windows printf doesn't allow reordering arguments

["Jason Short" <jdorje@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

<URL: http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=12932 >

Christian Prochaska wrote:
> <URL: http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=12932 >
> 
> I finally got localization to work and could test the patch. Linking to
> libutf-8 worked fine, but did not solve the problem :-/
> 
> Tested with 2.0.7, gui-win32 and gui-gtk-2.0. It still looked like on
> the screenshot posted by Christian Knoke:
> http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Attachment/105650/68232/broken-i18n.png 

Hmm, but others reported that libutf-8 does solve the problem.  If it 
doesn't, is there any other reason we'd want to link to it?

And, what other solution could there be?  Is there a library that 
provides a working version of printf?

-jason