It wouldn't. What if you translate your app in a language where the second
value should appear first? The translation would be $2%s $1%s and the code
wouldn't change.

On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 12:04 PM, Streets Of Boston
<[email protected]>wrote:

> Thank you!
>
> That's new to me, though....
>
> I thought that the position/order of the arguments of the code that
> calls the getString method would take care of this.
>
> On Dec 6, 2:56 pm, Romain Guy <[email protected]> wrote:
> > To make this work correctly across multiple locales, you should use the
> > following syntax:
> >
> > $1%s $2%s
> >
> > On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 11:47 AM, Streets Of Boston
> > <[email protected]>wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > > When this string is in my strings.xml
> >
> > >   <string name="home_activity_header_name">%s %s</string>
> >
> > > I get this error when compiling the source-code:
> > > "error: Multiple substitutions specified in non-positional format; did
> > > you mean to add the formatted="false" attribute"
> >
> > > I just upgraded to the newest tools (v 8.0.0) and downloaded the
> > > latest SDK (2.3).
> > > I compile under apil-leverl 8 and i tried compiling under api-level 9.
> >
> > > Why does this error suddenly appear?
> > > Is there a way to get rid of it?
> >
> > > Thanks!
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