Re: [OT] _("STRING") notation

2001-03-17 Thread Moritz Schulte
Sven Burgener <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What is the significance of the '_' character in the following usage? > > printf(_("This is fetchmail release %s"), VERSION); > > Why the '_' and why the additional ()'s around the string constant? Seems that the code is using the GNU gettext

[OT] _("STRING") notation

2001-03-17 Thread Sven Burgener
(This applies to programming in C) What is the significance of the '_' character in the following usage? printf(_("This is fetchmail release %s"), VERSION); Why the '_' and why the additional ()'s around the string constant? This looks like _ does something special to the ()-part...? C