[bug #66313] msgfmt fails to parse glib's format specifiers

[Bruno Haible]

Update of bug #66313 (group gettext):

                  Status:                    None => Not a Bug              
             Assigned to:                    None => haible                 
             Open/Closed:                    Open => Closed                 

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Follow-up Comment #1:

There are two alternative ways to write this:

1) A way that is perfectly supported by GNU gettext:

#include <inttypes.h>

g_strdup_printf (_("%"PRId64" minutes ago"), minutes); 
-varbatim-

Documented at
https://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/html_node/Preparing-Strings.html
.

The PRId64 macro may need a platform-dependent override, as done in Gnulib:
https://www.gnu.org/software/gnulib/manual/html_node/inttypes_002eh.html

2) A way that will be supported in the future:
+verbatim+
g_strdup_printf (_("%w64d minutes ago"), minutes);


This is specified by ISO C 23 and will get increasing platform support over
the next years.




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