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Dpkg::Gettext(3perl)             libdpkg-perl             Dpkg::Gettext(3perl)

NAME
       Dpkg::Gettext - convenience wrapper around Locale::gettext

DESCRIPTION
       The Dpkg::Gettext module is a convenience wrapper over the
       Locale::gettext module, to guarantee we always have working gettext
       functions, and to add some commonly used aliases.

ENVIRONMENT
       DPKG_NLS
           When set to 0, this environment variable will disable the National
           Language Support in all Dpkg modules.

VARIABLES
       $Dpkg::Gettext::DEFAULT_TEXT_DOMAIN
           Specifies the default text domain name to be used with the short
           function aliases. This is intended to be used by the Dpkg modules,
           so that they can produce localized messages even when the calling
           program has set the current domain with textdomain(). If you would
           like to use the aliases for your own modules, you might want to set
           this variable to undef, or to another domain, but then the Dpkg
           modules will not produce localized messages.

FUNCTIONS
       $domain = textdomain($new_domain)
           Compatibility textdomain() fallback when Locale::gettext is not
           available.

           If $new_domain is not undef, it will set the current domain to
           $new_domain.  Returns the current domain, after possibly changing
           it.

       $trans = gettext($msgid)
           Compatibility gettext() fallback when Locale::gettext is not
           available.

           Returns $msgid.

       $trans = ngettext($msgid, $msgid_plural, $n)
           Compatibility ngettext() fallback when Locale::gettext is not
           available.

           Returns $msgid if $n is 1 or $msgid_plural otherwise.

       $trans = g_($msgid)
           Calls dgettext() on the $msgid and returns its translation for the
           current locale. If dgettext() is not available, simply returns
           $msgid.

       $trans = C_($msgctxt, $msgid)
           Calls dgettext() on the $msgid and returns its translation for the
           specific $msgctxt supplied. If dgettext() is not available, simply
           returns $msgid.

       $trans = P_($msgid, $msgid_plural, $n)
           Calls dngettext(), returning the correct translation for the plural
           form dependent on $n. If dngettext() is not available, returns
           $msgid if $n is 1 or $msgid_plural otherwise.

       $msgid = N_($msgid)
           A pseudo function that servers as a marker for automated extraction
           of messages, but does not call gettext(). The run-time translation
           is done at a different place in the code.

CHANGES
   Version 2.01 (dpkg 1.21.10)
       New function: gettext().

   Version 2.00 (dpkg 1.20.0)
       Remove function: _g().

   Version 1.03 (dpkg 1.19.0)
       New envvar: Add support for new DPKG_NLS environment variable.

   Version 1.02 (dpkg 1.18.3)
       New function: N_().

   Version 1.01 (dpkg 1.18.0)
       Now the short aliases (g_ and P_) will call domain aware functions with
       $DEFAULT_TEXT_DOMAIN.

       New functions: g_(), C_().

       Deprecated function: _g().

   Version 1.00 (dpkg 1.15.6)
       Mark the module as public.

1.21.22                           2023-05-11              Dpkg::Gettext(3perl)

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