Looking for people's experience with po files.

[Michael Pelletier]

Numbered argument conversion specifications ("%1$d") are an XSI (X/Open
System Interfaces) extension to the ISO C standard.

If you use them in code for cross-platform or legacy environments, it
probably wouldn't be a bad idea to #ifdef against the _XOPEN_UNIX constant.
The GNU C library is XSI compliant by default.

	-Michael Pelletier.

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> Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 12:14:13 -0400
> From: Dan Coutu <coutu at snowy-owl.com>

> part of what gettext handles by default. The trick there is to use 
> gettext to obtain the translation and then do string processing (your 
> language's equivalent of sprintf) in order to do the variable 
> substitution. There are, however,  potential pitfalls with this logic.
> Not all languages place words in the same order. What is one language 
> might be "You have 10 items in your shopping cart worth $50 total" 
> might in another language read more like "Your total of $50 is for item
count 10".

Most versions of printf will allow you to rearrange the order in which
conversion specifiers consume arguments by using "%n$" where you would
normally use "%".  Example:

printf("number1 is %2$d, and number2 is %1$d.\n", number2, number1);

does the same thing as

printf("number1 is %d, and number2 is %d.\n", number1, number2);
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