Hi, Arun Isaac <arunis...@systemreboot.net> skribis:
>> This looks like a real issue. I’m surprised this isn’t already >> addressed though: after all, ‘printf’ format strings have the same >> problem, right? How does everyone else deal with that? > > For C's printf format strings, gettext supports special syntax to > specify argument order. See > https://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/html_node/c_002dformat-Flag.html Oh, I see. > A German example is provided on that page. > > "%2$d Zeichen lang ist die Zeichenkette `%1$s'" With (ice-9 format), as has been suggested before, we should be able to do away with the “argument jumping” syntax (info "(guile) Formatted Output"): (format #f "~1@*~d Zeichen lang ist die Zeichenkette `~0@*~a'" "ab" 2) It’s a bit awkward though, in particular because we have to jump to the previous argument (0 and 1 here instead of 1 and 2). Does xgettext support that syntax? We’ve had troubles before with ~*. If it does, where should we use this syntax in lieu of the simpler forms? Everywhere? Thanks, Ludo’.
