On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 07:10:50PM +0100, Jim Meyering wrote:
> Martin Quinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> ...
> > "BLOCKS and BYTES may be followed by the following multiplicative suffixes:\n"
> > "xM M, c 1, w 2, b 512, kB 1000, K 1024, MB 1,000,000, M 1,048,576,\n"
> > "GB 1,000,000,000, G 1,073,741,824, and so on for T, P, E, Z, Y.\n"
> ...
> > This is because people from France would like to write 1.000.000 and the
> > ones from canada would like to write 1,000,000. To fix this issue, there is
> > three solutions: either split the translation for both country (quite
> > overkilling), choose that the solution from France should apply worldwide
> > (quite rude) or use fprintf to have the LC_NUMERIC field from locales to do
> > the job automagically.
>
> Hi Martin!
>
> Thank you for the patch.
>
> Taking df's --help as an example, what do you think about this as
> an alternative to writing out 1,000,000 and 1,048,576?
>
> SIZE may be (or may be an integer optionally followed by) one of following:
> kB 1000, K 1024, MB 1000*1000, M 1024*1024 and so on for G, T, P, E, Z, Y.
>
> I'm reluctant to encourage the use of `%'d', for fear that it's not
> portable enough. However, maybe there is hope in the longer term: we
> could use a replacement version of printf on systems that don't support
> `modern' :-) features like that.
I like this suggestion very much. It solves our problem with fr_FR vs fr_CA,
and make clearer for the user what it is all about, IMHO.
Sorry, I didn't knew that some system still don't support printf...
Thanks, Mt.
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