Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2000 22:02:45 -0700 (PDT) From: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org> To: Jan Knepper <jan@smartsoft.cc> Cc: John Doh! <johndoh_@hotmail.com>, bright@wintelcom.net, security@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to stop problems from printf Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009072201160.87560-100000@freefall.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <39B864D5.5BCC24E7@smartsoft.cc>
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On Fri, 8 Sep 2000, Jan Knepper wrote:
> I don't know what you are doing with the 'gettext' in the call to 'printf'.
Translate the string into a localized version. You can't just printf("%s",
gettext(...), args) because the arguments won't be printed, only the raw
string returned from gettext will, which contains operators you wanted to
be substituted for. See the original example.
Kris
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