Re: A special problem for malayalam (ml)

[Changwoo Ryu <cwryu debian org>]

2003-04-26 Åä 13:19, Sajith V.KÀÌ(°¡) ¾¸:
> Hi,
> 
>  I am sajith vk, cordinator for malayalam (ml). [Malayalam is the language used in kerala, a state in india]. 
> 
>  Consider a message 10 out of 100. The oder of integer reverses in malayalam translation [say- out of 100,  10] 
>   
>   Now consider the c-like message for the above. %d out of %d. If I trnaslate it as "out of %d, %d " it becomes out of 10, 100 which is wrong.
> 

You can translate it as "out of %2$d, %1$d".

It's not special, but common to other languages as well.