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

[Dov Grobgeld <dov grobgeld weizmann ac il>]

Hi Gavin,

I'm quite a novice when it comes to l10n, so I appreciate the input.
Actually, I am using Locale::Maketext::Lexicon::Gettext , so I am 
able to use the same .mo files that are generated by the GNU gettext
system. So what does it matter whether I read these files with 
Locale::Gettext or with Locale::Maketext::Lexicon::Gettext ? Note that
I will use .mo files instead of .po files as I did in my last example.

Regards,
Dov

Sorry for drifting outside of 
On Sun, May 08, 2005 at 05:21:08PM +0100, Gavin Brown wrote:
> > 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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