From: Maxime Devos <maximedevos@telenet.be>
To: Julien Lepiller <julien@lepiller.eu>, 65424@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#65424: Guix doesn't use positional arguments in translated formatted messages
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2023 18:12:08 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <67ef34fa-bb2a-319f-59b8-8e98a5d1b390@telenet.be> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <407968ba-c633-7367-3fd3-52325dca88b4@telenet.be>
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> Proposed new documentation:
>
> * 22.5.5 Translatable messages
>
> When constructing translatable messages with 'format' (<reference to
> guile manual>), it is important to use positional arguments. For
> example, instead of writing
>
> (format #t (G_ "The package '~a' is newer than '~a'.~%")
> '("foo" "bar")),
>
> you should write
>
> (format #t (G_ "The package '~1@*~a' is newer than '~2@*~a'.~%")
> '("foo" "bar"))
Off-by-one error here
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-08-21 12:09 bug#65424: Guix doesn't use positional arguments in translated formatted messages Maxime Devos
2023-08-21 14:20 ` Julien Lepiller
2023-08-21 14:45 ` Maxime Devos
2023-08-21 16:12 ` Maxime Devos [this message]
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