From: Rui Miguel Seabra (rms@multicert.com)
Date: Mon Mar 04 2002 - 13:52:15 GMT
On Mon, 2002-03-04 at 13:49, Pierre Abbat wrote:
> On Monday 04 March 2002 05:06, Rui Miguel Seabra wrote:
> > If it is using a derivate of printf (which I am presuming), then no.
> > printf(format, variables...)
> > so: printf("bla bla %s ble ble %d blu blu", string, integer);
> > Changing to
> > printf("bla bla %d ble ble %s blu blu", string, integer);
> > will result pretty badly!
> > Btw, am I right in presuming we do this?
> > Can there not be dramatic bugs if someone tampers the strings files?
> > Are this strings sanitized before being fed as a format?
> I got a reply explaining how to do it. I'll try it, if someone can explain
> how to get Abi to use a language for which I don't have an installed locale.
Could you forward it to the list, please?
Hugs, rms
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