Making a change in a SharePoint page

[PJH]

@ben_lubar said:

Software translators are TRWTF. I've seen people translate %s and %d

Hmm. What happens in those i18n suites when there are two %s's in the string and the order can change between languages? #BadIdeasThread

[ben_lubar]

@PJH said:

Hmm. What happens in those i18n suites when there are two %s's in the string and the order can change between languages? #BadIdeasThread

Well, in PHP it's %1$s %2$s and in Go it's %[1]s %[2]s

[chubertdev]

print "blah blah blah blah blah including some replacements" % classInstance.__dict__

[dkf]

@ben_lubar said:

Well, in PHP it's %1$s %2$s

It's the same in many languages (but not all, of course); those come from the XPG3 guidelines for positional specifications.

[Arantor]

Another standard! <insert obligatory xkcd reference>