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Dpkg::Gettext(3)                 libdpkg-perl                 Dpkg::Gettext(3)


NAME

       Dpkg::Gettext - convenience wrapper around Locale::gettext


DESCRIPTION

       The Dpkg::Gettext module is a convenience wrapper over the
       Locale::gettext module, to guarantee we always have working gettext
       functions, and to add some commonly used aliases.


VARIABLES

       $Dpkg::Gettext::DEFAULT_TEXT_DOMAIN
           Specifies the default text domain name to be used with the short
           function aliases. This is intended to be used by the Dpkg modules,
           so that they can produce localized messages even when the calling
           program has set the current domain with textdomain(). If you would
           like to use the aliases for your own modules, you might want to set
           this variable to undef, or to another domain, but then the Dpkg
           modules will not produce localized messages.


FUNCTIONS

       $trans = g_($msgid)
           Calls dgettext() on the $msgid and returns its translation for the
           current locale. If dgettext() is not available, simply returns
           $msgid.

       $trans = C_($msgctxt, $msgid)
           Calls dgettext() on the $msgid and returns its translation for the
           specific $msgctxt supplied. If dgettext() is not available, simply
           returns $msgid.

       $trans = P_($msgid, $msgid_plural, $n)
           Calls dngettext(), returning the correct translation for the plural
           form dependent on $n. If dngettext() is not available, returns
           $msgid if $n is 1 or $msgid_plural otherwise.

       $msgid = N_($msgid)
           A pseudo function that servers as a marked for automated extraction
           of messages, but does not call gettext(). The run-time translation
           is done at a different place in the code.


CHANGES

   Version 1.02 (dpkg 1.18.3)
       New function: N_().

   Version 1.01 (dpkg 1.18.0)
       Now the short aliases (g_ and P_) will call domain aware functions with
       $DEFAULT_TEXT_DOMAIN.

       New functions: g_(), C_().

       Deprecated function: _g().

   Version 1.00 (dpkg 1.15.6)
       Mark the module as public.

1.18.4                            2015-11-26                  Dpkg::Gettext(3)

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