Re: Word order in translation

From: Christian Biesinger (cbiesinger@web.de)
Date: Mon Mar 04 2002 - 14:00:07 GMT

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    On Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 08:47:26PM -0500, Pierre Abbat wrote:
    [printf format string]
    > The problem is that in the English, %s precedes %d. Is there any way to
    > handle such word order differences?

    Hm. At least if abiword uses gettext for that, the following should work:

    %2$d foobar %1$s

    OK, I checked, and this seems to be a printf feature (from the Single Unix
    Specification). No idea if this works on Windows. 

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