Re: [PATCH] I18n flag for msgfmt

[Behdad Esfahbod]

On Thu, 8 Jan 2004, Bruno Haible wrote:

> Roozbeh Pournader wrote:
> > That will be a little hard to comprehend for translators, and
> > specifically since the text will usually appear in a right-to-left
> > context ...:
> >
> >     ..... OUTDIGIT>d>% .....
> >
> > (where dots are right-to-left characters). A simple %Id will just become
> >         ..... Id% .....
> >
> > which is much more easier to read and write.
>
> You're right, that's a convincing argument for choosing a syntax with
> doesn't have bidi-neutral characters.
>
> Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> > ISO C only reerves lowercase letters, uppercase
> > is free to use for extensions.  So the argumentation against supporting
> > I directly is invalid.
>
> OK, and if a program attempts to use '%I' in a format string for the sake
> of a different platform (where the 'I' might mean something totally
> different), then "xgettext" will not mark it as a valid format string, and
> "msgfmt" will not do the special processing... So it seems safe to use
> the %I directly in the msgstr. Will be in gettext-0.14.

Thanks everybody.  Just to mention that "%If" has been checked
into glibc recently.  Let us know if you need help there.

behdad

> Bruno