Re: [Monotone-devel] a note on recent strings changes

[Thomas Keller]

Zack Weinberg schrieb:
> -- If I understand correctly, the first question is about a long
> string with some real text in it, but also a whole bunch of %u (not
> %n) formatting escapes.  I changed all of them to %s.  This was
> necessary because the code changed to pass strings to the formatter
> instead of numbers.  That's all there was to that.

Yeah, noticed that it has been %u later, my editor has a crappy font. I
should really change that. Sorry.

> -- The second question is, I think, about this somewhat odd construct:
> 
>  return (F("%u") % number).str()
> 
> That is similar to lexical_cast<string>(number) but formats the number
> according to the locale's number-formatting rules.  In particular,
> thousands separators are inserted if the locale so specifies.
> Unfortunately, this does also mean that "%u" shows up as a string to
> be translated in monotone.pot.

Ah, ok, that explains it. I'm fine with the change, just wondered... =)

Thomas.

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