On Mon 2018-07-30 11:08:42, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > On Mon, Jul 30, 2018 at 04:31:04PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote: > > Well, I guess errors should have numbers, and catalog explaining what > > error means what. That way userspace can translate, and it is what we > > do with errno. > > > > I believe numbers are best. If you hate numbers, you can still use > > strings, as long as you can enumerate them in docs (but it will be > > strange design). > > Have you looked at how gettext() works? It uses the english text as > a search string and replaces it with the localised string. This is > a very common design!
Yes, and it needs ("foo %s %d", "bar", 3) as base. Not ("foo bar 3").
Pavel
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