From: Arun Isaac <arunisaac@systemreboot.net>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>, "Julien Lepiller" <julien@lepiller.eu>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org, Zhu Zihao <all_but_last@163.com>
Subject: Re: Word order in Guix l10n
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2020 23:33:03 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <878s9vf0vc.fsf@systemreboot.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ft43b1g6.fsf@gnu.org>
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Hi,
> This looks like a real issue. I’m surprised this isn’t already
> addressed though: after all, ‘printf’ format strings have the same
> problem, right? How does everyone else deal with that?
For C's printf format strings, gettext supports special syntax to
specify argument order. See
https://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/html_node/c_002dformat-Flag.html
A German example is provided on that page.
"%2$d Zeichen lang ist die Zeichenkette `%1$s'"
Regards,
Arun
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-12-18 18:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-12-15 10:53 Word order in Guix l10n Zhu Zihao
2020-12-15 12:25 ` Julien Lepiller
2020-12-18 15:04 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-12-18 18:03 ` Arun Isaac [this message]
2020-12-22 15:00 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-12-22 15:06 ` Julien Lepiller
2020-12-23 12:22 ` Miguel Ángel Arruga Vivas
2020-12-27 22:13 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-12-22 15:45 ` Miguel Ángel Arruga Vivas
2020-12-15 13:11 ` Arun Isaac
2020-12-15 13:51 ` Zhu Zihao
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