NAME

Locale::Maketext::Simple - Simple interface to Locale::Maketext::Lexicon

VERSION

This document describes version 0.11 of Locale::Maketext::Simple, released February 6, 2004.

SYNOPSIS

Minimal setup (looks for auto/Foo/*.po and auto/Foo/*.mo):

    package Foo;
    use Locale::Maketext::Simple;       # exports 'loc'
    loc_lang('fr');                     # set language to French
    sub hello {
        print loc("Hello, [_1]!", "World");
    }

More sophisticated example:

    package Foo::Bar;
    use Locale::Maketext::Simple (
        Class       => 'Foo',           # search in auto/Foo/
        Style       => 'gettext',       # %1 instead of [_1]
        Export      => 'maketext',      # maketext() instead of loc()
        Subclass    => 'L10N',          # Foo::L10N instead of Foo::I18N
        Decode      => 1,               # decode entries to unicode-strings
    );
    sub japh {
        print maketext("Just another %1 hacker", "Perl");
    }

DESCRIPTION

This module is a simple wrapper around Locale::Maketext::Lexicon, designed to alleviate the need of creating Language Classes for module authors.

If Locale::Maketext::Lexicon is not present, it implements a minimal localization function by simply interpolating [_1] with the first argument, [_2] with the second, etc. Interpolated function like [quant,_1] are treated as [_1], with the sole exception of [tense,_1,X], which will append ing to _1 when X is present, or appending ed to <_1> otherwise.

OPTIONS

All options are passed either via the use statement, or via an explicit import.

Class

By default, Locale::Maketext::Simple draws its source from the calling package's auto/ directory; you can override this behaviour by explicitly specifying another package as Class.

Path

If your PO and MO files are under a path elsewhere than auto/, you may specify it using the Path option.

Style

By default, this module uses the maketext style of [_1] and [quant,_1] for interpolation. Alternatively, you can specify the gettext style, which uses %1 and %quant(%1) for interpolation.

This option is case-insensitive.

Export

By default, this module exports a single function, loc, into its caller's namespace. You can set it to another name, or set it to an empty string to disable exporting.

Subclass

By default, this module creates an ::I18N subclass under the caller's package (or the package specified by Class), and stores lexicon data in its subclasses. You can assign a name other than I18N via this option.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Thanks to Jos I. Boumans for suggesting this module to be written.

Thanks to Chia-Liang Kao for suggesting Path and loc_lang.

SEE ALSO

Locale::Maketext, Locale::Maketext::Lexicon

AUTHORS

Autrijus Tang <autrijus@autrijus.org>

COPYRIGHT

Copyright 2003, 2004 by Autrijus Tang <autrijus@autrijus.org>.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

See http://www.perl.com/perl/misc/Artistic.html

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