Re: [HACKERS] %2$, %1$ gettext placeholder replacement is not working under Win32

unix/win32 libc doesnt support "$n" variables..

On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 21:03:56 +0200, Nicolai Tufar <ntufar(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> Sorry for such a late submission.
>
> I just downloaded the latest postgresql-8.0.0-rc5-3.zip installer
> for windows and it appears that Windows' printf() does not
> support placeholder replacement as described in
> http://developer.postgresql.org/docs/postgres/nls.html#AEN57284
>
> I searched list archives but found no explanation for this.
> Original string is <<%s at or near \"%s\">> and we
> replaced it in Turkish for <<\"%2$s\" yerinde %1$s>>.
>
> It works perfectly fine on Linux but fails miserably under
> Windows with something like:
> <<HATA: "$s" yerinde $sat character 1>>
> while on Linux the same version works fine:
> <<HATA: "sdfassfsdfasd" yerinde söz dizim hatasý at character 1 >>
>
> What is it? I suppose that Windows' printf() does
> not support changing the order of placeholder
> characters with %2$ .... %1$. Did some one else
> deal with it? Is it because of compilation flags?
>
> In any case PostgreSQL version in current pginstaller
> is broken.
>
> Best regards,
> Nicolai
>
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