error info handling in MIT krb5 code

Nicolas Williams Nicolas.Williams at sun.com
Wed Mar 29 10:31:32 EST 2006


On Wed, Mar 29, 2006 at 09:49:59AM -0500, Sam Hartman wrote:
>     Nicolas> We've run into this problem in Solaris with SASL.
> 
> No, you've run into the problem that dealing with the locale in a
> multi-client server is hard.
> 
> I'm concerned that the native translation mechanism on OS X and
> Windows does not support printf style formatting.

Ah, different problem.  Well, yes, there's no printf token to say "call
gettext() on this string argument before formatting."  Maybe there
should be...  Currently callers of printf() have to localize the format
string and any other string arguments.



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