Re: problem with plural-forms

Tom Lane wrote:

> That advice is, if not outright wrong, at least incredibly
> short-sighted.  The method breaks the instant you have any additional
> values to print.  For example, this ain't gonna work:
> 
>        printf (ngettext ("One file removed, containing %lu bytes",
>                          "%d files removed, containing %lu bytes", n),
>                n, total_bytes);

I think it should use the %2$s style specifier in that case.  This
should work:

>        printf (ngettext ("One file removed, containing %2$lu bytes",
>                          "%d files removed, containing %lu bytes", n),
>                n, total_bytes);

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