NAME¶
maketext - translate and make messages
SYNOPSIS¶
maketext [OPTION] [--domain=TEXTDOMAIN] MSGKEY [PARAM...]
maketext [OPTION] -s MSGID [PARAM...]
DESCRIPTION¶
The "maketext" script translates a natural language message into the
user's language, by looking up the translation in a message MO file, and
process the plural transformation with Maketext.
The "maketext" script is a command-line interface to
Locale::Maketext::Gettext(3) (and
Locale::Maketext(3)). It can
be used in shell scripts, etc, to translate, maketext and return the result.
By this way, it enables Maketext to be integrated into other programming
languages/systems, like bash/csh, python, PHP, C, etc. It works like the
command-line program gettext.
For example:
% maketext -s "[*,_1,virus was,viruses were] found in [*,_2,file,files]." 0 1
0 viruses were found in 1 file.
% maketext -s "[*,_1,virus was,viruses were] found in [*,_2,file,files]." 1 3
1 virus was found in 3 files.
%
OPTIONS¶
- -d,--domain=TEXTDOMAIN
- Retrieve translated messages from TEXTDOMAIN.
- -s
- Adds a new line to the end of the output so that it behaves
like the `echo' or the `gettext' command.
- -h,--help
- Display the help messages.
- -V,--version
- Display version information and exit.
- MSGKEY
- The original text used to look up translated text.
- PARAM...
- Parameters to Maketext for the plural and other text
functions.
ENVIRONMENT¶
- TEXTDOMAIN
- TEXTDOMAIN is used to determine the text domain when the -d
parameter is not given.
- TEXTDOMAINDIR
- TEXTDOMAINDIR is used to search the message catelog/MO file
if it does not reside in the system locale directories.
NOTES¶
Maketext language function override, like "quant" or
"numerate", is not available here. Suggestions are welcome.
The current system locale directory search order is: /usr/share/locale,
/usr/lib/locale, /usr/local/share/locale, /usr/local/lib/locale. Suggestions
are welcome.
BUGS¶
Report bugs to imacat <imacat@mail.imacat.idv.tw>
SEE ALSO¶
Locale::Maketext(3),
Locale::Maketext::TPJ13(3),
Locale::Maketext::Gettext(3),
Locale::Maketext::Gettext::Functions(3),
bindtextdomain(3),
textdomain(3). Also, please refer to the official GNU gettext manual at
<
http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/>.
AUTHOR¶
imacat <imacat@mail.imacat.idv.tw>
COPYRIGHT¶
Copyright (c) 2003-2007 imacat. All rights reserved. This program is free
software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as
Perl itself.