[hypermail] printf and i18n

From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se_at_hypermail-project.org>
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 09:31:33 +0200 (MET DST)
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.30.0104110922180.16330-100000_at_pm1.contactor.se>


Hey

Did we ever sort it out how we should deal with localized strings? IMHO, it is a good thing to be able to generate pages using different languages, but I think we should keep the diagnostics and general hypermail strings in english.

On the related subject of doing correctly output strings, we might need fully supported %N$s-style print formats to modify in which order arguments are used. The file src/mprintf.c was added by me for printf() portability reasons a long time ago (including snprintf). Now, there has been a few bugs discovered in that file since it was imported to hypermail, and there's even a separate sub-project now that works on the portable printf() issue: Trio.

        http://www.contactor.se/~dast/trio/

I suggest that we incorporate Trio instead, and remove the src/mprintf.c.

(Note: I am co-authoring the Trio package and I wrote a fair part of the src/mprintf.c implementation too.)

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