This is to help projects that embed mozilla, such as galeon, kmeleon, skipstone, etc. the &PT code ( which does "x of y" where x=current page, y=total pages in the print footer) depends on mozilla's internationalization and localization subsystems, which have problems. A new "total number of pages" code would enable these projects to do their own internationalization and localization on the header/footer strings more easily, thus bypassing mozilla's internationalization. The problems with &PT and mozilla are that it complicates the user experience for these other projects, and furthermore it doesnt work right. Users of other projetcs would have to go to the complicated hassle of finding and download not only the mozilla libraries but the mozilla language packs. however these packs are outdated for many languages. For example, as of nov 2001 there is not even a french pack for mozilla 0.9.5. Furthermore, these packs dont work. For example, i tried out the italian pack on 2001102304 and the &PT code produces a '1$d' or something on the printed page. The new code (perhaps &TNOP for total number of pages) would enable an embedding browser to use its own localization and internationalization subsystem. For example, on galeon the gettext() stuff could be used something like so: g_sprintf( str, gettext("%s of %s"), "&P", "&TNOP" ) ; mozPrintOptions.setFooterStrLeft( str ); galeonWrapper->print( mozPrintOptions , etc, etc); I would make a patch for mozilla to provide this new code, but it takes mozilla 8 hours to compile on my computer and its thus rather impossible to test any modifications as well as they should be tested, and i am not even sure you would accept the patch.

cc: rods

Confirming. Enhancement request.

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It appears this bug might fix the locale issue Bug 157497

On reviewing the patch for bug 272386, I see it contains the feature requested here. The code is "&L", for "last page" I suppose.