Re: corrections for gettext manual 0.10.40

[Bruno Haible]

Dear Perry,

Thanks for your remarks! I have integrated them.

> * In the section on printf specifier orders
> (eg, grep for "lang ist die"), the manual explains that
> the routines in msgfmt know about this special notation.
> It seems to me more important that the runtime behavior
> work with this special notation. I see in the gettext
> source that you have a private printf implementation
>      vasprintf.c
> which works with this notation -- what about exposing that
> function for the programmer of the final package to access ?
> I (as a programmer using the gettext library, which I plan
> to become) would make use of it.

Node "C" (section "List of Programming Languages") of the manual will
mention that this syntax is POSIX but not C 99, i.e. you can count on
it to be recognized by the standard printf on Unix.

Bruno