Re: gettext 0.16 vs 0.14.6

[Greg Troxel <gdt%ir.bbn.com@localhost>]

Alan Barrett <apb%cequrux.com@localhost> writes:

> 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.

In that case I would have to say it's lame of us not to implement it.