n00b question on spacing

[Dave Angel]

On 06/22/2013 09:20 PM, MRAB wrote:
> On 23/06/2013 00:56, Dave Angel wrote:
      <SNIP>
>>
>> Certainly the reorderability of the format string is significant.  Not
>> only can it be reordered, but more than one instance of some of the
>> values is permissible if needed.  (What's missing is a decent handling
>> of such things as singular/plural, where you want a different version
>> per country of one (or a few) words from the format string, based on
>> whether a value is exactly 1.)
>>
> [snip]
> One vs not-one isn't good enough. Some languages use the singular with
> any numbers ending in '1'. Some languages have singular, dual, and
> plural. Etc. It's surprising how inventive people can be! :-)
>

And there are plenty more where that came from.  Thanks for the reminder.

I guess instead of a format, we need a DWIM.

-- 
DaveA