[Freeipa-devel] [PATCH 69] Use indexed format specifiers in i18n strings
Rob Crittenden
rcritten at redhat.com
Mon Apr 2 13:15:32 UTC 2012
John Dennis wrote:
> Translators need to reorder messages to suit the needs of the target
> language. The conventional positional format specifiers (e.g. %s %d)
> do not permit reordering because their order is tied to the ordering
> of the arguments to the printf function. The fix is to use indexed
> format specifiers.
I guess this looks ok but all of these errors are of the format: string
error, error number (and inconsistently, sometimes the reverse). Do
those really need to be re-orderable?
rob
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