Re: IRC client for Emacs

[Mario Lang]

huug <address@hidden> writes:

> On 2002-08-14, Alex Schroeder <address@hidden> wrote:
>> (erc-define-catalog
>>  'english '((bad-ping-response . "Unexpected PING response from %n
>>  (time %t)") (bad-syntax . "Bad syntax") (cannot-find-file . "Cannot
>>  find file %f") (cannot-read-file . "Cannot read file %f") (connect
>>  . "Connecting to %S:%p... ")
>
> Doesn't look that robust: the order of %n%t and %S%p thingies is
> language-dependent.

That's exactly the reason why we decided to use format-spec instead
of simply %s%s%s like constructs.

The catalog can be translated, and the order does NOT matter.

So you can either write "%a is %b" or "%b is %a".

-- 
CYa,
  Mario