Re: APR_UINT64_FMT_T in localised format strings

On 20.10.2013 12:23, Mattias Engdegård wrote:
> Localised strings must consist entirely of literals; they cannot
> contain preprocessor macros. For example, svnserve/serve.c:2234 has
>
> return svn_error_createf(SVN_ERR_RA_SVN_MALFORMED_DATA, NULL,
> _("Invalid move_behavior value %"
> APR_UINT64_T_FMT " in log command"),
> move_behavior_param);
>
> I suppose the current practice is to format the numbers to separate
> strings and include them using %s in the localised string.

Not at all ... the translator should be free to change the number
formatting, so changing them to %s would not be correct, IMO. On the
other hand, I can't really think of a better solution, offhand.

> (If it were up to me, I'd just make %lld (etc) work in all format
> strings and be done with it.)

Unfortunately that assumes that %lld is a valid formatting placeholder.
That is not the case on all platforms with all compilers.

-- Brane

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