Re: gettext 0.16 vs 0.14.6

[Alan Barrett <apb%cequrux.com@localhost>]

On Fri, 18 Jul 2008, Greg Troxel wrote:
> I read the NEWS for gettext 0.17, and it didn't say anything about
> printf argument reordering.  Is that something specified in POSIX, or a
> Linuxism, or something else?  I can see it being useful for
> printing internationalized dates.

I don't know who did it first, but SUSv3 calls it an "XSI"
option.  It's not in the C99 standard, or in NetBSD's libc.  See
<http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/sprintf.html>,
which uses internationalised dates as an example.

--apb (Alan Barrett)