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-----Message d'origine-----
De : Damon Chaplin [mailto:damon@helixcode.com]
Envoyé : mercredi 26 juillet 2000 9:01
À : Mathieu Lacage
Cc : gnome-devel-list@gnome.org
Objet : Re: internationalization



Mathieu Lacage wrote:
> 
> hi all,
> 
> I would like to know how libraries succeed at making internationalization
work.
> 
> As I see it, when a library has a string to internationalise, the _( macro
> will catually be a call to gettext which is going to fetch the message
from
> the domain currently set. If I have loaded this library from a program
which
> has set another domain, the string is fetched from the program's domain
and
> not from the library doamin.
> 
> The only solution I see here is to have each library function call
> bindtextdomain and textdoamin at the begening of each function call but
> this is obviously not the case in production code.
> 
> So, my question is: how does it work ?

The "_" macro is usually expanded to dgettext (PACKAGE, String) in
libraries.
So the domain is always passed in explicitly.
(see libgnome/gnome-i18n.h and gnome-i18nP.h, and gtk/gtkintl.h)

Damon


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