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Locale::Maketext::Lexicon::Gettext(3)User Contributed Perl Documentatioocale::Maketext::Lexicon::Gettext(3)



NAME
       Locale::Maketext::Lexicon::Gettext - PO and MO file parser for Maketext

SYNOPSIS
       Called via Locale::Maketext::Lexicon:

           package Hello::I18N;
           use base 'Locale::Maketext';
           use Locale::Maketext::Lexicon {
               de => [Gettext => 'hello/de.mo'],
           };

       Directly calling "parse()":

           use Locale::Maketext::Lexicon::Gettext;
           my %Lexicon = %{ Locale::Maketext::Lexicon::Gettext->parse(<DATA>) };
           __DATA__
           #: Hello.pm:10
           msgid "Hello, World!"
           msgstr "Hallo, Welt!"

           #: Hello.pm:11
           msgid "You have %quant(%1,piece) of mail."
           msgstr "Sie haben %quant(%1,Poststueck,Poststuecken)."

DESCRIPTION
       This module implements a perl-based "Gettext" parser for Locale::Maketext. It transforms all %1, %2,
       <%*>... sequences to "[_1]", "[_2]", "[_*]", and so on.  It accepts either plain PO file, or a MO
       file which will be handled with a pure-perl parser adapted from Imacat's "Locale::Maketext::Gettext".

       Since version 0.03, this module also looks for "%function(args...)"  in the lexicon strings, and
       transform it to "[function,args...]".  Any %1, %2... sequences inside the args will have their
       percent signs ("%") replaced by underscores ("_").

       The name of function above should begin with a letter or underscore, followed by any number of
       alphanumeric characters and/or underscores.  As an exception, the function name may also consist of a
       single asterisk ("*") or pound sign ("#"), which are "Locale::Maketext"'s shorthands for "quant" and
       "numf", respectively.

       As an additional feature, this module also parses MIME-header style metadata specified in the null
       msgstr (""), and add them to the %Lexicon with a "__" prefix.  For example, the example above will
       set "__Content-Type" to "text/plain; charset=iso8859-1", without the newline or the colon.

       Any normal entry that duplicates a metadata entry takes precedence.  Hence, a "msgid
       "__Content-Type"" line occurs anywhere should override the above value.

OPTIONS
       use_fuzzy

       When parsing PO files, fuzzy entries (entries marked with "#, fuzzy") are silently ignored.  If you
       wish to use fuzzy entries, specify a true value to the "_use_fuzzy" option:

           use Locale::Maketext::Lexicon {
               de => [Gettext => 'hello/de.mo'],
               _use_fuzzy => 1,
           };

       allow_empty

       When parsing PO files, empty entries (entries with "msgstr """) are silently ignored.  If you wish to
       allow empty entries, specify a true value to the "_allow_empty" option:

           use Locale::Maketext::Lexicon {
               de => [Gettext => 'hello/de.mo'],
               _allow_empty => 1,
           };

SEE ALSO
       Locale::Maketext, Locale::Maketext::Lexicon

AUTHORS
       Audrey Tang <cpan@audreyt.org>

COPYRIGHT (The "MIT" License)
       Copyright 2002, 2003, 2004 by Audrey Tang <cpan@audreyt.org>.

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perl v5.8.8                                      2006-06-15            Locale::Maketext::Lexicon::Gettext(3)