Sun Dec 17 15:56:35 1995 Miles Bader <miles@gnu.ai.mit.edu>
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1 /* libgettext.h -- Message catalogs for internationalization.
2 Copyright (C) 1995 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
3 This file is part of the GNU C Library.
4 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
5 This file is derived from the file libgettext.h in the GNU gettext package.
7 The GNU C Library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
8 modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public License as
9 published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the
10 License, or (at your option) any later version.
12 The GNU C Library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
13 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
14 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
15 Library General Public License for more details.
17 You should have received a copy of the GNU Library General Public
18 License along with the GNU C Library; see the file COPYING.LIB. If
19 not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330,
20 Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. */
22 #ifndef _LIBINTL_H
23 #define _LIBINTL_H 1
24 #include <features.h>
26 #include <locale.h>
28 #define __need_NULL
29 #include <stddef.h>
31 /* We define an additional symbol to signal that we use the GNU
32 implementation of gettext. */
33 #define __USE_GNU_GETTEXT 1
35 __BEGIN_DECLS
37 /* Look up MSGID in the current default message catalog for the current
38 LC_MESSAGES locale. If not found, returns MSGID itself (the default
39 text). */
40 extern char *gettext __P ((const char *__msgid));
41 extern char *__gettext __P ((const char *__msgid));
43 /* Look up MSGID in the DOMAINNAME message catalog for the current
44 LC_MESSAGES locale. */
45 extern char *dgettext __P ((const char *__domainname, const char *__msgid));
46 extern char *__dgettext __P ((const char *__domainname, const char *__msgid));
48 /* Look up MSGID in the DOMAINNAME message catalog for the current CATEGORY
49 locale. */
50 extern char *dcgettext __P ((const char *__domainname, const char *__msgid,
51 int __category));
52 extern char *__dcgettext __P ((const char *__domainname, const char *__msgid,
53 int __category));
56 /* Set the current default message catalog to DOMAINNAME.
57 If DOMAINNAME is null, return the current default.
58 If DOMAINNAME is "", reset to the default of "messages". */
59 extern char *textdomain __P ((const char *__domainname));
60 extern char *__textdomain __P ((const char *__domainname));
62 /* Specify that the DOMAINNAME message catalog will be found
63 in DIRNAME rather than in the system locale data base. */
64 extern char *bindtextdomain __P ((const char *__domainname,
65 const char *__dirname));
66 extern char *__bindtextdomain __P ((const char *__domainname,
67 const char *__dirname));
70 /* Optimized version of the function above. */
71 #if defined __OPTIMIZED
72 /* These must be a macro. Inlined functions are useless because the
73 `__builtin_constant_p' predicate in dcgettext would always return
74 false. */
76 # define gettext (msgid) dgettext (NULL, msgid)
78 # define dgettext (domainname, msgid) \
79 dcgettext (domainname, msgid, LC_MESSAGES)
81 # if __GNUC__ > 2 || (__GNUC__ == 2 && __GNUC_MINOR__ >= 7)
82 # define dcgettext(domainname, msgid, category) \
83 (__extension__ \
84 ({ \
85 char *result; \
86 if (__builtin_constant_p (msgid)) \
87 { \
88 extern int _nl_msg_cat_cntr; \
89 static char *__translation__; \
90 static int __catalog_counter__; \
91 if (! __translation__ || __catalog_counter__ != _nl_msg_cat_cntr) \
92 { \
93 __translation__ = \
94 __dcgettext ((domainname), (msgid), (category)); \
95 __catalog_counter__ = _nl_msg_cat_cntr; \
96 } \
97 result = __translation__; \
98 } \
99 else \
100 result = __dcgettext ((domainname), (msgid), (category)); \
101 result; \
103 # endif
104 #endif /* Optimizing. */
107 __END_DECLS
109 #endif /* libintl.h */