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

This document describes version 0.12 of Locale::Maketext::Simple, released March 17, 2004.

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");
    }

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 CW[_1] with the first argument, CW[_2] with the second, etc. Interpolated function like CW[quant,_1] are treated as CW[_1], with the sole exception of CW[tense,_1,X], which will append CWing to CW_1 when X is CWpresent, or appending CWed to <_1> otherwise.

All options are passed either via the CWuse statement, or via an explicit CWimport.

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 CWClass.

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

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

This option is case-insensitive.

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

By default, this module creates an CW::I18N subclass under the caller's package (or the package specified by CWClass), and stores lexicon data in its subclasses. You can assign a name other than CWI18N via this option.

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.

Specifies an encoding to store lexicon entries, instead of utf8-strings. If set to CWlocale, the encoding from the current locale setting is used. Implies a true value for CWDecode.

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

Thanks to Chia-Liang Kao for suggesting CWPath and CWloc_lang.

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

Autrijus Tang <autrijus@autrijus.org>

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>