From: Nick Erdmann <erdmann@date.upb.de>
To: util-linux@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] ddate: St. Tib's Day in other languages
Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2011 20:35:02 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1976757.PW98uZrV7g@arch> (raw)
In other languages than english, the translation of "St. Tib's Day" may not
be 13 bytes long. Example of what happens in german:
$ ddate 29 2 2008
St. Tib’s D, 3174 YOLD
Signed-off-by: Nick Erdmann <erdmann@date.upb.de>
--- a/misc-utils/ddate.c 2011-07-20 21:55:23.000000000 +0200
+++ b/misc-utils/ddate.c 2011-08-17 18:11:12.437504258 +0200
@@ -223,6 +223,7 @@
int tib_start=-1, tib_end=0;
int i, fmtlen=strlen(fmt);
char *bufptr=buf;
+ char *foo;
/* fprintf(stderr, "format(%p, \"%s\", dt)\n", buf, fmt);*/
@@ -249,7 +250,9 @@
for(i=0; i<fmtlen; i++) {
if((i==tib_start) && (dt.day==-1)) {
/* handle St. Tib's Day */
- strcpy(bufptr, _("St. Tib's Day")); bufptr += 13;
+ foo = _("St. Tib's Day");
+ while((*bufptr++=*foo++));
+ --bufptr;
i=tib_end;
} else {
if(fmt[i]=='%') {
next reply other threads:[~2011-08-17 18:42 UTC|newest]
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2011-08-17 18:35 Nick Erdmann [this message]
2011-08-18 9:31 ` [PATCH] ddate: St. Tib's Day in other languages Karel Zak
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