2004-10-22 Roland McGrath <roland@frob.com>
[glibc.git] / intl / libintl.h
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1 /* Message catalogs for internationalization.
2 Copyright (C) 1995-1999, 2000-2002, 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
3 This file is part of the GNU C Library.
4 This file is derived from the file libgettext.h in the GNU gettext package.
6 The GNU C Library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
7 modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
8 License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
9 version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
11 The GNU C Library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
12 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
13 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
14 Lesser General Public License for more details.
16 You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
17 License along with the GNU C Library; if not, write to the Free
18 Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA
19 02111-1307 USA. */
21 #ifndef _LIBINTL_H
22 #define _LIBINTL_H 1
24 #include <features.h>
26 /* We define an additional symbol to signal that we use the GNU
27 implementation of gettext. */
28 #define __USE_GNU_GETTEXT 1
30 /* Provide information about the supported file formats. Returns the
31 maximum minor revision number supported for a given major revision. */
32 #define __GNU_GETTEXT_SUPPORTED_REVISION(major) \
33 ((major) == 0 ? 1 : -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 (__const char *__msgid) __THROW;
42 /* Look up MSGID in the DOMAINNAME message catalog for the current
43 LC_MESSAGES locale. */
44 extern char *dgettext (__const char *__domainname, __const char *__msgid)
45 __THROW;
46 extern char *__dgettext (__const char *__domainname, __const char *__msgid)
47 __THROW __attribute_format_arg__ (2);
49 /* Look up MSGID in the DOMAINNAME message catalog for the current CATEGORY
50 locale. */
51 extern char *dcgettext (__const char *__domainname,
52 __const char *__msgid, int __category) __THROW;
53 extern char *__dcgettext (__const char *__domainname,
54 __const char *__msgid, int __category)
55 __THROW __attribute_format_arg__ (2);
58 /* Similar to `gettext' but select the plural form corresponding to the
59 number N. */
60 extern char *ngettext (__const char *__msgid1, __const char *__msgid2,
61 unsigned long int __n)
62 __THROW __attribute_format_arg__ (1) __attribute_format_arg__ (2);
64 /* Similar to `dgettext' but select the plural form corresponding to the
65 number N. */
66 extern char *dngettext (__const char *__domainname, __const char *__msgid1,
67 __const char *__msgid2, unsigned long int __n)
68 __THROW __attribute_format_arg__ (2) __attribute_format_arg__ (3);
70 /* Similar to `dcgettext' but select the plural form corresponding to the
71 number N. */
72 extern char *dcngettext (__const char *__domainname, __const char *__msgid1,
73 __const char *__msgid2, unsigned long int __n,
74 int __category)
75 __THROW __attribute_format_arg__ (2) __attribute_format_arg__ (3);
78 /* Set the current default message catalog to DOMAINNAME.
79 If DOMAINNAME is null, return the current default.
80 If DOMAINNAME is "", reset to the default of "messages". */
81 extern char *textdomain (__const char *__domainname) __THROW;
83 /* Specify that the DOMAINNAME message catalog will be found
84 in DIRNAME rather than in the system locale data base. */
85 extern char *bindtextdomain (__const char *__domainname,
86 __const char *__dirname) __THROW;
88 /* Specify the character encoding in which the messages from the
89 DOMAINNAME message catalog will be returned. */
90 extern char *bind_textdomain_codeset (__const char *__domainname,
91 __const char *__codeset) __THROW;
94 /* Optimized version of the function above. */
95 #if defined __OPTIMIZE__ && !defined __cplusplus
97 /* We need NULL for `gettext'. */
98 # define __need_NULL
99 # include <stddef.h>
101 /* We need LC_MESSAGES for `dgettext'. */
102 # include <locale.h>
104 /* These must be macros. Inlined functions are useless because the
105 `__builtin_constant_p' predicate in dcgettext would always return
106 false. */
108 # define gettext(msgid) dgettext (NULL, msgid)
110 # define dgettext(domainname, msgid) \
111 dcgettext (domainname, msgid, LC_MESSAGES)
113 # define ngettext(msgid1, msgid2, n) dngettext (NULL, msgid1, msgid2, n)
115 # define dngettext(domainname, msgid1, msgid2, n) \
116 dcngettext (domainname, msgid1, msgid2, n, LC_MESSAGES)
118 #endif /* Optimizing. */
120 __END_DECLS
122 #endif /* libintl.h */