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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