Re: L10n in Gtk2-perl with Locale::Maketext::Lexicon

[Gavin Brown <gavin brown uk com>]

> I just wrote the following example of how to do localization of a
> Gtk2-perl program and thought it might be useful for others. Perhaps
> we should put it somewhere in the wiki:

Although Locale::Maketest is a nice system, and much easier to use in
Perl, l in my experience it's better to use GNU gettext for l10n. Using
gettext means that auto-generated strings like those from Glade get
automagically generated.

e.g.:

        use POSIX qw(setlocale);
        use Locale::gettext;
        
        # name of your program:
        my $APP_NAME = 'foobar';
        
        # get language from environment:
        my $LANGUAGE = $ENV{LANG} || 'en_US';
        
        # put your .mo files in /usr/share/locale/$APP_NAME/LC_MESSAGES:
        my $DIRECTORY = '/usr/share/locale';
        
        setlocale(LC_ALL, $LANGUAGE);
        bindtextdomain($APP_NAME, $DIRECTORY);
        textdomain($APP_NAME);

        print gettext('Hello World!');

Gavin.

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