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authorIan Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>2018-09-29 01:20:17 +0100
committerIan Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>2018-09-29 12:04:52 +0100
commit76876bd5a95c3ce1ff6ccf3f633a6cce6fa4e5b2 (patch)
treeefd42bee373804d903b37c7e9317407c4425ff9d /Debian/Dgit/I18n.pm
parent53d499e549e6eec5e319965cf2df1368120f2bca (diff)
i18n: Source-level framework: call setlocale, provide __ and ___
This is the general plumbing for looking up translated messages - the consumer-side. No actual messages are flagged for translation yet. Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
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+# -*- perl -*-
+
+package Debian::Dgit::I18n;
+
+# This module provides
+# __ a function which is an alias for gettext
+# ___ sprintf wrapper that gettexts the format
+#
+# In perl the sub `_' is a `superglobal', which means there
+# is only one of it in the whole program and every reference
+# is to the same one. So it's not really useable in modules.
+# Hence __.
+
+use Locale::gettext;
+
+BEGIN {
+ use Exporter;
+ @ISA = qw(Exporter);
+ @EXPORT = qw(__ ___);
+}
+
+
+sub __ { gettext @_; }
+sub ___ { my $f = shift @_; sprintf +(gettext $f), @_; }
+
+1;