Re: Gettext real issues

Ben Reser wrote:

>On Sat, Apr 03, 2004 at 02:33:52AM +0200, Branko ??ibej wrote:
>
>
>>No, but printf does if LOCALE is set correctly. But only if it actually
>>sees %d in the format string. If we marshal the number into a string on
>>the server and replace %d with %s in the format strings on the client,
>>the numbers won't get printed correctly.
>>
>>
>
>Umm we don't use printf. We use apr routines for formating.
>
Yes, in the command-line client.

> Which
>ultimately use apr_vformatter. Which doesn't support this. Not to
>mention as someone else pointed out the flags to do this aren't really
>portable anyway.
>
>
I don't consider the glbc printf manpage to be a definitive reference. I
didn't find any language in the standard that would _forbid_ printf to
use locale-specific digits and/or radix.

-- 
Brane Čibej   <brane_at_xbc.nu>   http://www.xbc.nu/brane/
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