Re: [PATCH/RFC 07/17] gettext.c: work around us not using setlocale(LC_CTYPE, "")

On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 12:45 AM, Jonathan Nieder [off-list ref] wrote:

Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:

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On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 15:18, Jonathan Nieder [off-list ref] wrote:

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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?

I certainly hope so. I was planning on documenting its usage,
Johannes?

Sorry, my knowledge was just outdated.  It's in posix[1] now, which
I think means we can expect it to be in any recent libc.

Unfortunately msys uses newlib 1.9.0 afaict, from 2001.  The %4$s
support was introduced[2] to newlib by Eric Blake on 2007-04-25.

Git for Windows doesn't use the MSYS-runtime for Git itself, it only
use the MSYS-environment to build etc. It's using MSVCRT.DLL as the
CRT, which is even worse feature-wise.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/56e442dc.aspx describes the
format specification fields supported, and it does not look promising.