[LCP]printf format question.

Angus Mackay amackay at gusnet.cx
Sat Jul 14 04:28:05 UTC 2001


yep, this sort of crap is done all the time on Windows. it is to convert the
string to a wchar_t* if you want to compile a localizable version.

cheers, Angus.

It would seem that Bill Rausch (bill at numerical.com) said:
> >printf (_("Try `%s --help' for more information.\n"),  program_name);
> All I can think of is that there was a #define _ something somewhere?



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