Re: What does _( do to a string?

["Almer S. Tigelaar" <almer gnome org>]

Hello,

On Mon, 2001-10-29 at 20:52, Russell, Patrick wrote:
> 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");

This marks the string for translation.
(for more information see 'info gettext')

Yours sincerely,

Almer S. Tigelaar