[LCP]printf format question.

[Bill Rausch]

At 9:21 AM -0400 7/13/01, David Filion wrote:
>I was looking over some source code I'd come across and noticed 
>something about
>the
>formats for the printf statements.  Each format was in brackets and 
>preceeded by
>an _ character.
>For example:
>
>printf (_("Try `%s --help' for more information.\n"),  program_name);
>
>Why was the format setup that way?

All I can think of is that there was a #define _ something somewhere?

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