Re: gettext feature request

[Eli Schwartz]

On 8/13/21 2:01 PM, Léa Gris wrote:
> I would have really loved if Bash expanded translations with its
> built-in printf using a `-g` flag for gettext and positional arguments
> support instead of expanding string literal translations.
> 
> It would have allowed something like :
> 
> ```sh
> #!/usr/bine/env bash
> 
> # -g Gettext translation of Hello World into variable my_string
> printf -v my_string -g 'Hello World!'
> 
> # Printout using gettext translated format string
> printf -g 'String %1$q has %2$d characters\n' "$my_string" "${#my_string}"
> ```


What would be the point of adding a -g option to printf, which duplicates:

printf -v my_string $"Hello World!"

printf $"String %1\$q has %2\$d characters\n" "$my_string" "${#my_string}"

And then, since you are relying on a separate feature from translation
altogether, that of re-ordered input parameters to printf, ask for that
to be added, which is currently a fatal error:

bash: printf: `$': invalid format character

and doesn't require adding a new option to printf just for the use of
translations.

-- 
Eli Schwartz
Arch Linux Bug Wrangler and Trusted User

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