Re: What does _( do to a string?

[Dom Lachowicz <dominicl seas upenn edu>]

Quoting "Russell, Patrick" <patrick russell lmco com>:

> Hello All,
>  I was digging through some of the gnumeric impot/export routines and
> noticed that some of the string values appear with _( ) around them,
> Why?
> An example of this is at the bottom of the file
> /opt/freeware/src/packages/BUILD/gnumeric(whatever build)/src/stf.c.  It
> reads:
> desc = _("CSV File import");

Hi Patrick,

_() and N_() are part of gettext, the standard GNU tool for translation (i18n).

In code, you might see _("color"), which is an en-US string. At runtime, this 
might translate the string to "Farbe" if your locale is de-DE, or "colour" if 
you're in en-GB.

Dom