Re: Documentation of ngettext

[Bruno Haible]

Akim Demaille writes:

> I'd like to suggest that the default macros, with !ENABLE_NLS,
> described in the documentation, be extended with the new functions.
> In particular, if someone --disables-nls

Thanks for the suggestion. I've put this on my todo list for gettext 0.11.

> the project really needs something like:
> 
> #ifdef HAVE_LOCALE_H
> # include <locale.h>
> #endif

Nowadays all systems have <locale.h>.

> #ifdef ENABLE_NLS
> # include <libintl.h>
> # define _(Text) gettext (Text)
> #else
> # undef  bindtextdomain
> # define bindtextdomain(Domain, Directory)
> # undef  textdomain
> # define textdomain(Domain)
> # undef  ngettext
> # define ngettext(Singular, Plural, Number)   \
>          ((Number == 1) ? Singular : Plural)
> # define _(Text) Text
> #endif
> #define N_(Text) Text
> 
> to work properly.

You get all this in a single line through #include "libgettext.h",
using the libgettext.h from gettext-0.10.40.

> (Oh, BTW, may I also suggest that the calling convention of
> AM_GNU_GETTEXT be described with its arguments?

Makes sense, yes.

> And why AM_?.

Because at some time that was the customary prefix for all GNU
packages' m4 macros except autoconf itself.

Bruno