Re: printversion could be more translation-friendly

[Richard Kettlewell <richardk@chiark.greenend.org.uk>]

Wichert Akkerman <wichert@wiggy.net> writes:
> Previously Santiago Vila wrote:

>> Yes, I do:
>> 
>>   if (fprintf(stdout,
>>     _("Debian `%s' package management program version %s.\n"),
>>     DPKG, DPKG_VERSION_ARCH) < 0) werr("stdout");
>> 
>> If you don't trust a \n-terminated fprintf to do the right thing,
>> I suggest that you write your own version, rather than making the code
>> a hell to translate.
>
> I am only going to rely on certainties. In this case POSIX, and
> preferably even less. And POSIX makes no guarantees that that fprintf
> will flush the IO buffers as far as I can see.

fputs gives you no additional guarantee over fprintf.

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