[Haskell-cafe] Re: Pure Haskell Printf

[Keith Wansbrough]

> On 2004 November 16 Tuesday 06:42, Jérémy Bobbio wrote:
> > There is a probleme with ShowS though: it is not internationalizable at
> > all.  Strings like printf's or with any kind of variable substitution is
> > required for proper internationalization / localization.
> Printf is not adequate for internationalization either, because word (and thus 
> parameter) ordering may vary among languages.

POSIX / SUS 2001 printf() supports positional arguments, like this:

printf("%2$d %1$s\n","days of christmas",12);

This is required for l10n, as you say..

--KW 8-)
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