NAME
Locale::Maketext::Simple - Simple interface to Locale::Maketext::Lexicon
VERSION
This document describes version 0.12 of Locale::Maketext::Simple, released March 17, 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
Encoding => 'locale', # but encode lexicons in current locale
# (needs Locale::Maketext::Lexicon 0.36)
);
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.
Decode
If set to a true value, source entries will be converted into utf8-strings (available in Perl 5.6.1 or later). This feature needs the Encode or Encode::compat module.
Encoding
Specifies an encoding to store lexicon entries, instead of utf8-strings. If set to locale, the encoding from the current locale setting is used. Implies a true value for Decode.
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.