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Re: Customizing printf

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Lauri Alanko <la@iki.fi> writes:

> In article <87ipmehbxl.fsf@blp.benpfaff.org>,
> Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu> wrote:
>> The place where printf-like format strings shine versus a series
>> of discrete function calls is when internationalization comes
>> into the picture.  It's relatively straightforward to allow
>> translators to supply alternative format strings to be used at
>> runtime, but there is no comparable way to allow them to supply a
>> different series of discrete function calls.
>
> Printf doesn't "shine" in internationalization. Having
> language-specific format strings is a woefully inadequate hack that is
> often used in lieu of proper multilingual support. It's better than
> nothing, sure, but hardly something to brag about. Here's a
> description of some of the issues that come up:
>
> http://search.cpan.org/dist/Locale-Maketext/lib/Locale/Maketext/TPJ13.pod#A_Localization_Horror_Story:_It_Could_Happen_To_You

Whoever wrote that page did not read the GNU gettext manual,
which explains the same problems and shows the solutions to them.
-- 
char a[]="\n .CJacehknorstu";int putchar(int);int main(void){unsigned long b[]
={0x67dffdff,0x9aa9aa6a,0xa77ffda9,0x7da6aa6a,0xa67f6aaa,0xaa9aa9f6,0x11f6},*p
=b,i=24;for(;p+=!*p;*p/=4)switch(0[p]&3)case 0:{return 0;for(p--;i--;i--)case+
2:{i++;if(i)break;else default:continue;if(0)case 1:putchar(a[i&15]);break;}}}

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Customizing printf jacob navia <jacob@spamsink.net> - 2011-11-15 14:36 +0100
  Re: Customizing printf "Joel C. Salomon" <joelcsalomon@gmail.com> - 2011-11-15 13:07 -0500
  Re: Customizing printf Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu> - 2011-11-15 10:10 -0800
    Re: Customizing printf jacob navia <jacob@spamsink.net> - 2011-11-15 21:36 +0100
      Re: Customizing printf blp@cs.stanford.edu (Ben Pfaff) - 2011-11-15 12:51 -0800
        Re: Customizing printf "Joel C. Salomon" <joelcsalomon@gmail.com> - 2011-11-15 18:03 -0500
    Re: Customizing printf jgk@panix.com (Joe keane) - 2011-11-20 15:14 +0000
      Re: Customizing printf blp@cs.stanford.edu (Ben Pfaff) - 2011-11-20 10:43 -0800
        Re: Customizing printf Lauri Alanko <la@iki.fi> - 2011-11-20 19:01 +0000
          Re: Customizing printf blp@cs.stanford.edu (Ben Pfaff) - 2011-11-20 11:05 -0800
            Re: Customizing printf Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des@des.no> - 2011-11-20 20:38 +0100
              Re: Customizing printf blp@cs.stanford.edu (Ben Pfaff) - 2011-11-20 11:37 -0800
        Re: Customizing printf jgk@panix.com (Joe keane) - 2011-11-21 22:23 +0000
          Re: Customizing printf Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2011-11-22 11:26 +1300
          Re: Customizing printf blp@cs.stanford.edu (Ben Pfaff) - 2011-11-21 14:23 -0800
          Re: Customizing printf Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2011-11-21 23:06 +0000
            Re: Customizing printf jgk@panix.com (Joe keane) - 2011-11-23 00:09 +0000
              Re: Customizing printf blp@cs.stanford.edu (Ben Pfaff) - 2011-11-22 16:16 -0800
      Re: Customizing printf Nick Keighley <nick_keighley_nospam@hotmail.com> - 2011-11-21 05:29 -0800
        Re: Customizing printf jgk@panix.com (Joe keane) - 2011-11-21 22:50 +0000
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    Re: Customizing printf gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2011-11-16 13:40 +0000
    Re: Customizing printf Seebs <usenet-nospam@seebs.net> - 2011-11-16 20:18 +0000
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