On Dec 6, 3:08 pm, Romain Guy <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > That may be the case, sometimes, somewhere. It isn't all the time. There may have been some developers giving strings to a translation company who returned the string translations and didn't tell the developers that the order of %s and %s was different, and the software company didn't have any QA in place to catch this, so some strings appeared funny for that particular translation.
I don't think the answer to solve this problem, that probably happened once to someone, with a build error instead of a warning. And please, it would be nice if someone could take the time to document what exactly the "formatted" attribute of the <string> element means. http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/resources/string-resource.html Thanks, -Matt -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
