On Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 10:13:01PM +0900, Tomohiro KUBOTA wrote: > Hi, > > I am translating webwml into Japanese. I have one question in > translating gettext (po) messages in webwml. > > Some of msgid's have expressions like "%s". Some of them have > multiple such variables. > > Can I use expressions like "%2$s" and "%1$s" in msgstr's to > exchange the order of such multiple "%s" variables, which is > available in normal gettext?
It depends on how it is used. In english/doc/manuals.defs, it appears inside a printf Perl command, which does not handle this argument switching, so answer is 'No'. You have to replace %s by ordinary text (or variables) in manuals.defs. Denis
