Re: [Phpwiki-talk] About languages

[Jeff D. <da...@da...>]

On Wed, 28 Nov 2001 17:19:37 +0000
"Lawrence Akka" <la...@20...> wrote:

> What about {_WhateverText}.

The one other thing to consider is that it would be nice to use a syntax
which can be grokked by xgettext (which is designed for picking gettext()
calls out of C code).  Some options which work:

  gettext("string")
  $gettext("string")
  _("Text string")
  $_("string")

(The parentheses around a "-quoted string are the key.)

These are all somewhat ugly, but acceptable, I think.  Of the above
choices, I like $_("this one").

(The other option would be to write our own replacement or pre-filter for
xgettext. :-/ )



> >The _() abbreviation is standard usage --- the gettext tools support it
by
> >default.

Correction: GNU xgettext doesn't support _() by default, you must include
the '-k_' command line argument.  The _() is fairly standard usage
however, and stock PHP does define '_' as an alias for 'gettext'.