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# Pure Perl implementation of Uniforum message translation.
# Copyright (C) 2002-2004 Guido Flohr <guido@imperia.net>,
# all rights reserved.

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=head1 NAME

Locale::gettext_xs - XS Implementation of Uniforum Message Translation

=head1 SYNOPSIS

 use gettext_xs (:locale_h :libintl_h);

 gettext $msgid;
 dgettext $domainname, $msgid;
 dcgettext $domainname, $msgid, LC_MESSAGES;
 ngettext $msgid, $msgid_plural, $count;
 dngettext $domainname, $msgid, $msgid_plural, $count;
 dcngettext $domainname, $msgid, $msgid_plural, $count, LC_MESSAGES;
 textdomain $domainname;
 bindtextdomain $domainname, $directory;
 bind_textdomain_codeset $domainname, $encoding;
 my $category = LC_CTYPE;
 my $category = LC_NUMERIC;
 my $category = LC_TIME;
 my $category = LC_COLLATE;
 my $category = LC_MONETARY;
 my $category = LC_MESSAGES;
 my $category = LC_ALL;

=head1 DESCRIPTION

The module B<Locale::gettext_xs> is the low-level interface to 
message translation according to the Uniforum approach that is
for example used in GNU gettext and Sun's Solaris.

The module does not necessarily work on your system.  It depends
on the presence of shared libraries that are not always available.
The higher-level modules Locale::TextDomain::(3), resp. 
Locale::Messages(3) will fall back to a pure Perl version if 
boostrapping B<Locale::gettext_xs> fails.

The interface of B<Locale::gettext_xs> is mostly identical to the pure 
Perl version as described in Locale::gettext_pp(3), see there for details.
Differences are outlined below.

B<Locale::gettext_xs> is downwards compatible to Locale::gettext(3)
by Phillip Vandry <vandry@Mlink.NET>.  You can use it as replacement
for Locale::gettext(3).

Please note that directory names passed to the function bindtextdomain()
are automatically converted from Perl semantics (slash as directory
separator) to local semantics (for example the backslash for MS-DOS).

=head1 AUTHOR

Copyright (C) 2002-2004, Guido Flohr E<lt>guido@imperia.netE<gt>, all
rights reserved.  See the source code for details.

The module is based on the work of Phillip Vandry <vandry@Mlink.NET>
in Locale::gettext(3).

This software is contributed to the Perl community by Imperia 
(L<http://www.imperia.net/>).

=head1 SEE ALSO

Locale::TextDomain(3pm), Locale::gettext_pp(3pm), Locale::gettext(3pm), 
Locale::Messages(3pm), File::Spec(3), perl(1)

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