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From: karl@ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer)
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Subject: Re: Internationalization [was Re: Printing plural forms.]
Message-ID: <1991Feb28.015613.17848@ima.isc.com>
Date: 28 Feb 91 01:56:13 GMT
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In article <1991Feb26.224900.2283@cbnewsh.att.com> daw@cbnewsh.att.com (David Wolverton) writes:
>[The one point not addressed by the ANSI C standard library is]
>        4. Whether, in a language other than English, would
>	the message read more sensibly with the second and
>	third printf() arguments reversed?

ANSI didn't address it, but X/Open did.  ISC has this feature in the XPG3-
conforming release of Interactive Unix.  (I wrote the code for this one.)

Karl W. Z. Heuer (karl@ima.isc.com or uunet!ima!karl), The Walking Lint