From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mx3-rdu2.redhat.com ([66.187.233.73]:60916 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726812AbeGaWm2 (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Jul 2018 18:42:28 -0400 From: David Howells In-Reply-To: <20180731193905.GA28700@amd> References: <20180731193905.GA28700@amd> <20180730183847.GB5544@bombadil.infradead.org> <20180730194938.GA12962@bombadil.infradead.org> <20180730210209.GY21725@thunk.org> <20180730235849.GA19692@bombadil.infradead.org> <20180731005802.GB21725@thunk.org> <18974.1533031913@warthog.procyon.org.uk> <20180731113422.GA22939@amd> <20180731120752.GA23378@bombadil.infradead.org> <4951.1533042037@warthog.procyon.org.uk> To: Pavel Machek Cc: dhowells@redhat.com, Matthew Wilcox , "Theodore Y. Ts'o" , Linus Torvalds , Al Viro , linux-fsdevel , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [PATCH 36/38] vfs: Add a sample program for the new mount API [ver #10] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-ID: <22671.1533070815.1@warthog.procyon.org.uk> Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2018 22:00:15 +0100 Message-ID: <22672.1533070815@warthog.procyon.org.uk> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: How would you handle translations to languages where the word order is different, such that you have to switch the parameters round? In such cases you might be able to simply translate the format string - you may also have to rearrange the parameters. IIRC, Windows DLL translation tables get around this by having format-string tables with numbered parameter substitution markers. David