Chris Packham <judge.packham@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> Hi Junio,
>
> On 12/22/2011 08:38 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> + for (cp = buf.buf; *cp; cp = np) {
>> + np = strchrnul(cp, '\n');
>> + /*
>> + * TRANSLATORS: the format is designed so that in RTL
>> + * languages you could reorder and put the "prefix" at
>> + * the end instead of the beginning of a line if you
>> + * wanted to.
>> + */
>> + strbuf_addf(&line,
>> + _("%s: %.*s\n"),
>> + prefix,
>> + (int)(np - cp), cp);
>> + emit(&line, cb_data);
>> + strbuf_reset(&line);
>> + if (*np)
>> + np++;
>> + }
>
> Forgive my ignorance if I've missed something, but how is this going to
> work for RTL languages? Translators can change the format string but
> they can't change the order of parameters passed to strbuf_addf.
Translations can select the parameters to use with the n$ specification,
eg. "%3$.*2$s: %$1s\n"
Andreas.
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