#ifndef _LIBINTL_H #include # ifndef _ISOMAC #include /* Now define the internal interfaces. */ extern char *__gettext (const char *__msgid) __attribute_format_arg__ (1); extern char *__dgettext (const char *__domainname, const char *__msgid) __attribute_format_arg__ (2); extern char *__dcgettext (const char *__domainname, const char *__msgid, int __category) __attribute_format_arg__ (2); libc_hidden_proto (__dcgettext) extern char *__ngettext (const char *__msgid1, const char *__msgid2, unsigned long int __n) __attribute_format_arg__ (1) __attribute_format_arg__ (2); extern char *__dngettext (const char *__domainname, const char *__msgid1, const char *__msgid2, unsigned long int __n) __attribute_format_arg__ (2) __attribute_format_arg__ (3); extern char *__dcngettext (const char *__domainname, const char *__msgid1, const char *__msgid2, unsigned long int __n, int __category) __attribute_format_arg__ (2) __attribute_format_arg__ (3); extern char *__textdomain (const char *__domainname); extern char *__bindtextdomain (const char *__domainname, const char *__dirname); extern char *__bind_textdomain_codeset (const char *__domainname, const char *__codeset); extern const char _libc_intl_domainname[]; libc_hidden_proto (_libc_intl_domainname) /* _ marks its argument, a string literal, for translation, and performs translation at run time if the LC_MESSAGES locale category has been set. The MSGID argument is extracted, added to the translation database, and eventually submitted to the translation team for processing. New translations are periodically incorporated into the glibc source tree as part of translation updates. */ # undef _ # define _(msgid) __dcgettext (_libc_intl_domainname, msgid, LC_MESSAGES) /* N_ marks its argument, a string literal, for translation, so that it is extracted and added to the translation database (similar to the _ macro above). It does not translate the string at run time. The first, primary use case for N_ is a context in which a string literal is required, such as an initializer. Translation will happen later, for example using the __gettext function. The second, historic, use case involves strings which may be translated in a future version of the library, but cannot be translated in current releases due to some technical limitation (e.g., gettext not being available in the dynamic loader). No translation at run time happens in such cases. In the future, this historic usage of N_ may become deprecated. Strings which are not translated create unnecessary work for the translation team. We continue to use N_ because it helps mark translatable strings. */ # undef N_ # define N_(msgid) msgid # endif /* !_ISOMAC */ #endif