Date: 13 Dec 2000 20:21:04 +0100 From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> To: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@cup.hp.com> Cc: Marius Bendiksen <mbendiks@eunet.no>, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>, Hajimu UMEMOTO <ume@mahoroba.org>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: %a and %A formats Message-ID: <xzp66koqg9r.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> In-Reply-To: Marcel Moolenaar's message of "Wed, 13 Dec 2000 14:17:13 -0500" References: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10012131515050.37018-100000@login-1.eunet.no> <3A37CB39.C2E8AA67@cup.hp.com>
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Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@cup.hp.com> writes: > Using indexes to refer to the arguments (vectors) has an advantage for > i18n. The order of the arguments is related to the language and some > translations produce better messages if the order of the arguments isn't > fixed. Printf() allows you to specify which argument to use for each format specifier. The kernel version doesn't support that, but I don't think it's hard to fix. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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