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From: jeffe@sandino.austin.ibm.com (Peter Jeffe 512.823.4091)
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Subject: Re: Bogus warning from AIX XL C Compiler/6000?
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Date: 31 Aug 90 21:30:37 GMT
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In article <3299@d75.UUCP> woan@soda.berkeley.edu writes:
>Agreed that this would have been a better error message, but I don't
>think that it is doable with the NLS messages because the warning
>message gets taken directly from the database so it doesn't seem to me
>that the 'x' specifics can be easily included.

Just to correct this: the NLS messages can contain any text, including
printf() formatting sequences.  The difference is that they have added
positional tags to them, so if the translated message gets its phrases
shifted around, the parameters are still in the right place.  (So there's
no excuse for not having a better message :-)

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