1Locale::PO(3)         User Contributed Perl Documentation        Locale::PO(3)
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NAME

6       Locale::PO - Perl module for manipulating .po entries from GNU gettext
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SYNOPSIS

9           use Locale::PO;
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11           $po = new Locale::PO([-option=>value,...])
12           [$string =] $po->msgid([new string]);
13           [$string =] $po->msgstr([new string]);
14           [$string =] $po->comment([new string]);
15           [$string =] $po->automatic([new string]);
16           [$string =] $po->reference([new string]);
17           [$value =] $po->fuzzy([value]);
18           [$value =] $po->add_flag('c-format');
19           print $po->dump;
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21           $quoted_string = $po->quote($string);
22           $string = $po->dequote($quoted_string);
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24           $aref = Locale::PO->load_file_asarray(<filename>,[encoding]);
25           $href = Locale::PO->load_file_ashash(<filename>,[encoding]);
26           Locale::PO->save_file_fromarray(<filename>,$aref,[encoding]);
27           Locale::PO->save_file_fromhash(<filename>,$href,[encoding]);
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DESCRIPTION

30       This module simplifies management of GNU gettext .po files and is an
31       alternative to using emacs po-mode. It provides an object-oriented
32       interface in which each entry in a .po file is a Locale::PO object.
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METHODS

35       new
36               my Locale::PO $po = new Locale::PO;
37               my Locale::PO $po = new Locale::PO(%options);
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39           Create a new Locale::PO object to represent a po entry.  You can
40           optionally set the attributes of the entry by passing a list/hash
41           of the form:
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43               -option=>value, -option=>value, etc.
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45           Where options are msgid, msgid_plural, msgstr, msgctxt, comment,
46           automatic, reference, fuzzy_msgctxt, fuzzy_msgid,
47           fuzzy_msgid_plural, fuzzy, and c-format. See accessor methods
48           below.
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50           To generate a po file header, add an entry with an empty msgid,
51           like this:
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53               $po = new Locale::PO(-msgid=>'', -msgstr=>
54                       "Project-Id-Version: PACKAGE VERSION\\n" .
55                       "PO-Revision-Date: YEAR-MO-DA HO:MI +ZONE\\n" .
56                       "Last-Translator: FULL NAME <EMAIL@ADDRESS>\\n" .
57                       "Language-Team: LANGUAGE <LL@li.org>\\n" .
58                       "MIME-Version: 1.0\\n" .
59                       "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=CHARSET\\n" .
60                       "Content-Transfer-Encoding: ENCODING\\n");
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62       msgid
63           Set or get the untranslated string from the object.
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65           This method expects the new string in unquoted form but returns the
66           current string in quoted form.
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68       msgid_plural
69           Set or get the untranslated plural string from the object.
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71           This method expects the new string in unquoted form but returns the
72           current string in quoted form.
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74       msgstr
75           Set or get the translated string from the object.
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77           This method expects the new string in unquoted form but returns the
78           current string in quoted form.
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80       msgstr_n
81           Get or set the translations if there are purals involved. Takes and
82           returns a hashref where the keys are the 'N' case and the values
83           are the strings. eg:
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85               $po->msgstr_n(
86                   {
87                       0 => 'found %d plural translations',
88                       1 => 'found %d singular translation',
89                   }
90               );
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92           This method expects the new strings in unquoted form but returns
93           the current strings in quoted form.
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95       msgctxt
96           Set or get the translation context string from the object.
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98           This method expects the new string in unquoted form but returns the
99           current string in quoted form.
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101       fuzzy_msgid
102           Set or get the outdated untranslated string from the object.
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104           This method expects the new string in unquoted form but returns the
105           current string in quoted form.
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107       fuzzy_msgid_plural
108           Set or get the outdated untranslated plural string from the object.
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110           This method expects the new string in unquoted form but returns the
111           current string in quoted form.
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113       fuzzy_msgctxt
114           Set or get the outdated translation context string from the object.
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116           This method expects the new string in unquoted form but returns the
117           current string in quoted form.
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119       obsolete
120           Returns 1 if the entry is obsolete.  Obsolete entries have their
121           msgid, msgid_plural, msgstr, msgstr_n and msgctxt lines commented
122           out with "#~"
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124           When using load_file_ashash, non-obsolete entries will always
125           replace obsolete entries with the same msgid.
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127       comment
128           Set or get translator comments from the object.
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130           If there are no such comments, then the value is undef.  Otherwise,
131           the value is a string that contains the comment lines delimited
132           with "\n".  The string includes neither the "# " at the beginning
133           of each comment line nor the newline at the end of the last comment
134           line.
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136       automatic
137           Set or get automatic comments from the object (inserted by emacs
138           po-mode or xgettext).
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140           If there are no such comments, then the value is undef.  Otherwise,
141           the value is a string that contains the comment lines delimited
142           with "\n".  The string includes neither the "#. " at the beginning
143           of each comment line nor the newline at the end of the last comment
144           line.
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146       reference
147           Set or get reference marking comments from the object (inserted by
148           emacs po-mode or gettext).
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150       fuzzy
151           Set or get the fuzzy flag on the object ("check this translation").
152           When setting, use 1 to turn on fuzzy, and 0 to turn it off.
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154       c_format
155           Set or get the c-format or no-c-format flag on the object.
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157           This can take 3 values: 1 implies c-format, 0 implies no-c-format,
158           and undefined implies neither.
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160       php_format
161           Set or get the php-format or no-php-format flag on the object.
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163           This can take 3 values: 1 implies php-format, 0 implies no-php-
164           format, and undefined implies neither.
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166       has_flag
167               if ($po->has_flag('perl-format')) {
168                       ...
169               }
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171           Returns true if the flag exists in the entry's #~ comment
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173       add_flag
174               $po->add_flag('perl-format');
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176           Adds the flag to the #~ comment
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178       remove_flag
179               $po->remove_flag('perl-format');
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181           Removes the flag from the #~ comment
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183       loaded_line_number
184           When using one of the load_file_as* methods, this will return the
185           line number that the entry started at in the file.
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187       dump
188           Returns the entry as a string, suitable for output to a po file.
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190       quote
191           Applies po quotation rules to a string, and returns the quoted
192           string. The quoted string will have all existing double-quote
193           characters escaped by backslashes, and will be enclosed in double
194           quotes.
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196       dequote
197           Returns a quoted po string to its natural form.
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199       load_file_asarray
200           Given the filename of a po-file, reads the file and returns a
201           reference to a list of Locale::PO objects corresponding to the
202           contents of the file, in the same order.  Accepts an optional
203           encoding parameter (e.g.  "utf8") which defines how the po-file's
204           input stream will be configured.
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206       load_file_ashash
207           Given the filename of a po-file, reads the file and returns a
208           reference to a hash of Locale::PO objects corresponding to the
209           contents of the file. The hash keys are the untranslated strings,
210           so this is a cheap way to remove duplicates. The method will prefer
211           to keep entries that have been translated.  Accepts an optional
212           encoding parameter (e.g.  "utf8") which defines how the po-file's
213           input stream will be configured.
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215       save_file_fromarray
216           Given a filename and a reference to a list of Locale::PO objects,
217           saves those objects to the file, creating a po-file.  Accepts an
218           optional encoding parameter (e.g. "utf8") which defines how the po-
219           file's output stream will be configured.
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221       save_file_fromhash
222           Given a filename and a reference to a hash of Locale::PO objects,
223           saves those objects to the file, creating a po-file. The entries
224           are sorted alphabetically by untranslated string.  Accepts an
225           optional encoding parameter (e.g. "utf8") which defines how the po-
226           file's output stream will be configured.
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AUTHOR

229       Maintainer: Ken Prows, perl@xev.net
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231       Original version by: Alan Schwartz, alansz@pennmush.org
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BUGS

234       If you load_file_as* then save_file_from*, the output file may have
235       slight cosmetic differences from the input file (an extra blank line
236       here or there).
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238       msgid, msgid_plural, msgstr, msgstr_n and msgctxt expect a non-quoted
239       string as input, but return quoted strings.  I'm hesitant to change
240       this in fear of breaking the modules/scripts of people already using
241       Locale::PO.
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243       Locale::PO requires blank lines between entries, but Uniforum style PO
244       files don't have any.
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246       Please submit all bug requests using CPAN's ticketing system.
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SEE ALSO

249       xgettext(1).
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