------- Comment #8 from esigra at gmail dot com 2008-05-06 21:55 ------- (In reply to comment #7) > If you added escape sequences to the string constants in the gcc source > then it would only work for the C locale messages.
Adding escape sequences for colours would work as well with localization as any other formatting. Simple example: printf("%s%s%s%s", warning_format_start, _("warning: "), _("the actual message"), warning_format_end); Here warning_format_start may be a pointer to "<orange>" and warning_format_end a pointer to "</orange>". If colours are disabled, they both point to "". So the result might be "warning: the actual message" or "<orange>warning: the actual message</orange>". Localization would work fine for both "warning: " and "the actual message". I do not really see the problem that you were thinking of. -- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=36150