Re: [PATCH/RFC 07/17] gettext.c: work around us not using setlocale(LC_CTYPE, "")
From: Marcin Cieslak <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:49:25
On Tue, 31 Aug 2010, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:quoted
In 107880a I removed our use of setlocale(LC_CTYPE, "") because of a bug in the GNU C Library [1]Future readers might benefit from a reminder that it is vsnprintf that is broken. Aside, not about this patch: glibc printf can be very convenient for translators, because of format strings like "%4$s". Do other common platforms like FreeBSD and Mingw have something similar?
Speaking for FreeBSD: % svn log -r21674 printf.3 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ r21674 | jkh | 1997-01-14 08:31:39 +0100 (wto) | 8 linii The following patch to lib/libc/stdio implements positional arguments in a manner consistent with other implementations. Its done in a way that adds only a tiny amount of overhead when positional arguments are not used. I also have a test program to go with this, but don't know where it belongs in the tree. Submitted-By: Bill Fenner [off-list ref] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Solaris 9 has it, too. --Marcin