On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 12:15:04PM +0100, Jim Meyering wrote: > But there's nothing we can do about the latter, and there *is* something > we can do about the former: precede with "%s". Of course, gettext tools > like msgmerge are careful to ensure that %-directives in translations > match those in the original, so it's not a problem, in general. Does msgmerge distinguish between ordinary strings and format strings, eg. puts (_("SQL lets you write LIKE '%string%'")); ? Rich. -- Richard Jones, Emerging Technologies, Red Hat http://et.redhat.com/~rjones virt-p2v converts physical machines to virtual machines. Boot with a live CD or over the network (PXE) and turn machines into Xen guests. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-p2v -- Libvir-list mailing list Libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list