On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 22:50:17 +1000, Drew Parsons wrote: > You can see it further below in the man page (in NOTES): > > Since version 2.7, glibc also provides the m modifier for the same pur‐ > pose as the a modifier. The m modifier has the following advantages: > > * It may also be applied to %c conversion specifiers (e.g., %3mc). > > * It avoids ambiguity with respect to the %a floating-point conversion > specifier (and is unaffected by gcc -std=c99 etc.) > > * It is specified in the upcoming revision of the POSIX.1 standard. > Thanks. > I'm blaming %as on the character encoding troubles I'd been having, > which was impeding fixing the bugs sooner. The problem seemed to > disappear after I replaced %as with %ms. > gworldclock unblocked. Cheers, Julien
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