Richard Burmeister wrote in message <10915@palm-dev-forum>...
>
...
>That is a good point. It doesn't apply in the specific example I gave, but
>it could easily apply in the general case. E.g., something like:
> StrPrintF( msg, "That's a %s %s, Mr. Smith", adjective, noun );
>which in Spanish would have to be:
> StrPrintF( msg, "Es un %s %s, Sr. Smith", noun, adjective ).
>
Which is why the "^1 ^2" method was chosen -- because
you can always have your alert say "^2 ^1" instead in the
localized app -- the code remains the same. Using StrPrintF
is a barrier to i18n/l10n.
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