| From: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Zdenek Kotala <Zdenek(dot)Kotala(at)sun(dot)com> |
| Subject: | Re: problem with plural-forms |
| Date: | 2009-05-26 14:05:35 |
| Message-ID: | 20090526140535.GB32650@alvh.no-ip.org |
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Tom Lane wrote:
> That advice is, if not outright wrong, at least incredibly
> short-sighted. The method breaks the instant you have any additional
> values to print. For example, this ain't gonna work:
>
> printf (ngettext ("One file removed, containing %lu bytes",
> "%d files removed, containing %lu bytes", n),
> n, total_bytes);
I think it should use the %2$s style specifier in that case. This
should work:
> printf (ngettext ("One file removed, containing %2$lu bytes",
> "%d files removed, containing %lu bytes", n),
> n, total_bytes);
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Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
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