Re: [RFC/PATCH] i18n of multi-line messages

Chris Packham [off-list ref] writes:

Hi Junio,

On 12/22/2011 08:38 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote:

quoted

+	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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