1 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
3 // Purpose: interface of wxLocale
4 // Author: wxWidgets team
6 // Licence: wxWindows license
7 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
10 // --- --- --- generated code begins here --- --- ---
13 The languages supported by wxLocale.
15 This enum is generated by misc/languages/genlang.py
16 When making changes, please put them into misc/languages/langtabl.txt
20 /// User's default/preffered language as got from OS.
23 /// Unknown language, returned if wxLocale::GetSystemLanguage fails.
32 wxLANGUAGE_ARABIC_ALGERIA
,
33 wxLANGUAGE_ARABIC_BAHRAIN
,
34 wxLANGUAGE_ARABIC_EGYPT
,
35 wxLANGUAGE_ARABIC_IRAQ
,
36 wxLANGUAGE_ARABIC_JORDAN
,
37 wxLANGUAGE_ARABIC_KUWAIT
,
38 wxLANGUAGE_ARABIC_LEBANON
,
39 wxLANGUAGE_ARABIC_LIBYA
,
40 wxLANGUAGE_ARABIC_MOROCCO
,
41 wxLANGUAGE_ARABIC_OMAN
,
42 wxLANGUAGE_ARABIC_QATAR
,
43 wxLANGUAGE_ARABIC_SAUDI_ARABIA
,
44 wxLANGUAGE_ARABIC_SUDAN
,
45 wxLANGUAGE_ARABIC_SYRIA
,
46 wxLANGUAGE_ARABIC_TUNISIA
,
47 wxLANGUAGE_ARABIC_UAE
,
48 wxLANGUAGE_ARABIC_YEMEN
,
54 wxLANGUAGE_AZERI_CYRILLIC
,
55 wxLANGUAGE_AZERI_LATIN
,
58 wxLANGUAGE_BELARUSIAN
,
69 wxLANGUAGE_CHINESE_SIMPLIFIED
,
70 wxLANGUAGE_CHINESE_TRADITIONAL
,
71 wxLANGUAGE_CHINESE_HONGKONG
,
72 wxLANGUAGE_CHINESE_MACAU
,
73 wxLANGUAGE_CHINESE_SINGAPORE
,
74 wxLANGUAGE_CHINESE_TAIWAN
,
80 wxLANGUAGE_DUTCH_BELGIAN
,
82 wxLANGUAGE_ENGLISH_UK
,
83 wxLANGUAGE_ENGLISH_US
,
84 wxLANGUAGE_ENGLISH_AUSTRALIA
,
85 wxLANGUAGE_ENGLISH_BELIZE
,
86 wxLANGUAGE_ENGLISH_BOTSWANA
,
87 wxLANGUAGE_ENGLISH_CANADA
,
88 wxLANGUAGE_ENGLISH_CARIBBEAN
,
89 wxLANGUAGE_ENGLISH_DENMARK
,
90 wxLANGUAGE_ENGLISH_EIRE
,
91 wxLANGUAGE_ENGLISH_JAMAICA
,
92 wxLANGUAGE_ENGLISH_NEW_ZEALAND
,
93 wxLANGUAGE_ENGLISH_PHILIPPINES
,
94 wxLANGUAGE_ENGLISH_SOUTH_AFRICA
,
95 wxLANGUAGE_ENGLISH_TRINIDAD
,
96 wxLANGUAGE_ENGLISH_ZIMBABWE
,
104 wxLANGUAGE_FRENCH_BELGIAN
,
105 wxLANGUAGE_FRENCH_CANADIAN
,
106 wxLANGUAGE_FRENCH_LUXEMBOURG
,
107 wxLANGUAGE_FRENCH_MONACO
,
108 wxLANGUAGE_FRENCH_SWISS
,
113 wxLANGUAGE_GERMAN_AUSTRIAN
,
114 wxLANGUAGE_GERMAN_BELGIUM
,
115 wxLANGUAGE_GERMAN_LIECHTENSTEIN
,
116 wxLANGUAGE_GERMAN_LUXEMBOURG
,
117 wxLANGUAGE_GERMAN_SWISS
,
119 wxLANGUAGE_GREENLANDIC
,
125 wxLANGUAGE_HUNGARIAN
,
126 wxLANGUAGE_ICELANDIC
,
127 wxLANGUAGE_INDONESIAN
,
128 wxLANGUAGE_INTERLINGUA
,
129 wxLANGUAGE_INTERLINGUE
,
130 wxLANGUAGE_INUKTITUT
,
134 wxLANGUAGE_ITALIAN_SWISS
,
139 wxLANGUAGE_KASHMIRI_INDIA
,
142 wxLANGUAGE_KINYARWANDA
,
152 wxLANGUAGE_LITHUANIAN
,
153 wxLANGUAGE_MACEDONIAN
,
156 wxLANGUAGE_MALAYALAM
,
157 wxLANGUAGE_MALAY_BRUNEI_DARUSSALAM
,
158 wxLANGUAGE_MALAY_MALAYSIA
,
163 wxLANGUAGE_MOLDAVIAN
,
164 wxLANGUAGE_MONGOLIAN
,
167 wxLANGUAGE_NEPALI_INDIA
,
168 wxLANGUAGE_NORWEGIAN_BOKMAL
,
169 wxLANGUAGE_NORWEGIAN_NYNORSK
,
175 wxLANGUAGE_PORTUGUESE
,
176 wxLANGUAGE_PORTUGUESE_BRAZILIAN
,
179 wxLANGUAGE_RHAETO_ROMANCE
,
182 wxLANGUAGE_RUSSIAN_UKRAINE
,
187 wxLANGUAGE_SCOTS_GAELIC
,
189 wxLANGUAGE_SERBIAN_CYRILLIC
,
190 wxLANGUAGE_SERBIAN_LATIN
,
191 wxLANGUAGE_SERBO_CROATIAN
,
196 wxLANGUAGE_SINHALESE
,
199 wxLANGUAGE_SLOVENIAN
,
202 wxLANGUAGE_SPANISH_ARGENTINA
,
203 wxLANGUAGE_SPANISH_BOLIVIA
,
204 wxLANGUAGE_SPANISH_CHILE
,
205 wxLANGUAGE_SPANISH_COLOMBIA
,
206 wxLANGUAGE_SPANISH_COSTA_RICA
,
207 wxLANGUAGE_SPANISH_DOMINICAN_REPUBLIC
,
208 wxLANGUAGE_SPANISH_ECUADOR
,
209 wxLANGUAGE_SPANISH_EL_SALVADOR
,
210 wxLANGUAGE_SPANISH_GUATEMALA
,
211 wxLANGUAGE_SPANISH_HONDURAS
,
212 wxLANGUAGE_SPANISH_MEXICAN
,
213 wxLANGUAGE_SPANISH_MODERN
,
214 wxLANGUAGE_SPANISH_NICARAGUA
,
215 wxLANGUAGE_SPANISH_PANAMA
,
216 wxLANGUAGE_SPANISH_PARAGUAY
,
217 wxLANGUAGE_SPANISH_PERU
,
218 wxLANGUAGE_SPANISH_PUERTO_RICO
,
219 wxLANGUAGE_SPANISH_URUGUAY
,
220 wxLANGUAGE_SPANISH_US
,
221 wxLANGUAGE_SPANISH_VENEZUELA
,
222 wxLANGUAGE_SUNDANESE
,
225 wxLANGUAGE_SWEDISH_FINLAND
,
240 wxLANGUAGE_UKRAINIAN
,
242 wxLANGUAGE_URDU_INDIA
,
243 wxLANGUAGE_URDU_PAKISTAN
,
245 wxLANGUAGE_UZBEK_CYRILLIC
,
246 wxLANGUAGE_UZBEK_LATIN
,
247 wxLANGUAGE_VALENCIAN
,
248 wxLANGUAGE_VIETNAMESE
,
258 /// For custom, user-defined languages.
259 wxLANGUAGE_USER_DEFINED
262 // --- --- --- generated code ends here --- --- ---
267 This is the layout direction stored in wxLanguageInfo and returned by
268 wxApp::GetLayoutDirection(), wxWindow::GetLayoutDirection(),
269 wxDC::GetLayoutDirection() for RTL (right-to-left) languages support.
271 enum wxLayoutDirection
274 wxLayout_LeftToRight
,
279 Encapsulates a ::wxLanguage indentifier together with OS-specific information
280 related to that language.
282 struct WXDLLIMPEXP_BASE wxLanguageInfo
285 /// It should be greater than @c wxLANGUAGE_USER_DEFINED when defining your own
286 /// language info structure.
289 /// Canonical name of the language, e.g. @c fr_FR.
290 wxString CanonicalName
;
294 Win32 language identifiers (LANG_xxxx, SUBLANG_xxxx).
298 wxUint32 WinLang
, WinSublang
;
301 /// Human-readable name of the language.
302 wxString Description
;
304 /// The layout direction used for this language.
305 wxLayoutDirection LayoutDirection
;
307 /// Return the LCID corresponding to this language.
309 wxUint32
GetLCID() const;
311 /// Return the locale name corresponding to this language usable with
312 /// @c setlocale() on the current system.
313 wxString
GetLocaleName() const;
318 The category of locale settings.
320 @see wxLocale::GetInfo()
322 enum wxLocaleCategory
324 /// Number formatting.
327 /// Date/time formatting.
330 /// Monetary values formatting.
334 Default category for the wxLocaleInfo value.
336 This category can be used for values which only make sense for a single
337 category, e.g. wxLOCALE_SHORT_DATE_FMT which can only be used with
338 wxLOCALE_CAT_DATE. As this is the default value of the second parameter
339 of wxLocale::GetInfo(), wxLOCALE_CAT_DATE can be omitted when asking
340 for wxLOCALE_SHORT_DATE_FMT value.
348 The values understood by wxLocale::GetInfo().
350 Note that for the @c wxLOCALE_*_FMT constants (the date and time formats),
351 the strings returned by wxLocale::GetInfo() use strftime() or,
352 equivalently, wxDateTime::Format() format. If the relevant format
353 couldn't be determined, an empty string is returned -- there is no
354 fallback value so that the application could determine the best course
355 of actions itself in such case.
357 All of these values are used with @c wxLOCALE_CAT_DATE in wxLocale::GetInfo() or,
358 more typically, with @c wxLOCALE_CAT_DEFAULT as they only apply to a single category.
363 The thousands separator.
365 This value can be used with either wxLOCALE_CAT_NUMBER or
366 wxLOCALE_CAT_MONEY categories.
368 wxLOCALE_THOUSANDS_SEP
,
371 The character used as decimal point.
373 This value can be used with either wxLOCALE_CAT_NUMBER or
374 wxLOCALE_CAT_MONEY categories.
376 wxLOCALE_DECIMAL_POINT
,
381 Notice that short and long date formats may be the same under POSIX
382 systems currently but may, and typically are, different under MSW or OS X.
386 wxLOCALE_SHORT_DATE_FMT
,
393 wxLOCALE_LONG_DATE_FMT
,
396 Date and time format.
400 wxLOCALE_DATE_TIME_FMT
,
414 wxLocale class encapsulates all language-dependent settings and is a
415 generalization of the C locale concept.
417 In wxWidgets this class manages message catalogs which contain the translations
418 of the strings used to the current language.
420 For a list of the supported languages, please see ::wxLanguage enum values.
421 These constants may be used to specify the language in wxLocale::Init and
422 are returned by wxLocale::GetSystemLanguage.
425 In wxPerl you can't use the '_' function name, so
426 the @c Wx::Locale module can export the @c gettext and
427 @c gettext_noop under any given name.
430 # this imports gettext ( equivalent to Wx::GetTranslation
431 # and gettext_noop ( a noop )
433 use Wx::Locale qw(:default);
438 print gettext( "Panic!" );
440 button = Wx::Button-new( window, -1, gettext( "Label" ) );
443 If you need to translate a lot of strings, then adding gettext( ) around
444 each one is a long task ( that is why _( ) was introduced ), so just choose
445 a shorter name for gettext:
448 use Wx::Locale 'gettext' = 't',
449 'gettext_noop' = 'gettext_noop';
454 print t( "Panic!!" );
463 @see @ref overview_i18n, @ref page_samples_internat, wxXLocale
469 This is the default constructor and it does nothing to initialize the object:
470 Init() must be used to do that.
475 See Init() for parameters description.
477 wxLocale(int language
,
478 int flags
= wxLOCALE_LOAD_DEFAULT
| wxLOCALE_CONV_ENCODING
);
481 See Init() for parameters description.
483 The call of this function has several global side effects which you should
484 understand: first of all, the application locale is changed - note that this
485 will affect many of standard C library functions such as printf() or strftime().
486 Second, this wxLocale object becomes the new current global locale for the
487 application and so all subsequent calls to ::wxGetTranslation() will try to
488 translate the messages using the message catalogs for this locale.
490 wxLocale(const wxString
& name
,
491 const wxString
& short = wxEmptyString
,
492 const wxString
& locale
= wxEmptyString
,
493 bool bLoadDefault
= true,
494 bool bConvertEncoding
= false);
497 The destructor, like the constructor, also has global side effects: the
498 previously set locale is restored and so the changes described in
499 Init() documentation are rolled back.
504 Add a catalog for use with the current locale: it is searched for in standard
505 places (current directory first, then the system one), but you may also prepend
506 additional directories to the search path with AddCatalogLookupPathPrefix().
508 All loaded catalogs will be used for message lookup by GetString() for
511 In this overload, @c msgid strings are assumed
512 to be in English and written only using 7-bit ASCII characters.
513 If you have to deal with non-English strings or 8-bit characters in the
514 source code, see the instructions in @ref overview_nonenglish.
517 @true if catalog was successfully loaded, @false otherwise (which might
518 mean that the catalog is not found or that it isn't in the correct format).
520 bool AddCatalog(const wxString
& domain
);
523 Add a catalog for use with the current locale: it is searched for in standard
524 places (current directory first, then the system one), but you may also prepend
525 additional directories to the search path with AddCatalogLookupPathPrefix().
527 All loaded catalogs will be used for message lookup by GetString() for
530 This overload takes two additional arguments, @a msgIdLanguage and @a msgIdCharset.
533 The catalog domain to add.
536 Specifies the language of "msgid" strings in source code
537 (i.e. arguments to GetString(), wxGetTranslation() and the _() macro).
538 It is used if AddCatalog() cannot find any catalog for current language:
539 if the language is same as source code language, then strings from source
540 code are used instead.
543 Lets you specify the charset used for msgids in sources
544 in case they use 8-bit characters (e.g. German or French strings).
545 This argument has no effect in Unicode build, because literals in sources are
546 Unicode strings; you have to use compiler-specific method of setting the right
547 charset when compiling with Unicode.
550 @true if catalog was successfully loaded, @false otherwise (which might
551 mean that the catalog is not found or that it isn't in the correct format).
553 bool AddCatalog(const wxString
& domain
, wxLanguage msgIdLanguage
,
554 const wxString
& msgIdCharset
);
557 Add a prefix to the catalog lookup path: the message catalog files will
558 be looked up under prefix/lang/LC_MESSAGES, prefix/lang and prefix
561 This only applies to subsequent invocations of AddCatalog().
563 static void AddCatalogLookupPathPrefix(const wxString
& prefix
);
566 Adds custom, user-defined language to the database of known languages.
567 This database is used in conjunction with the first form of Init().
569 static void AddLanguage(const wxLanguageInfo
& info
);
572 This function may be used to find the language description structure for the
573 given locale, specified either as a two letter ISO language code (for example,
574 "pt"), a language code followed by the country code ("pt_BR") or a full, human
575 readable, language description ("Portuguese-Brazil").
577 Returns the information for the given language or @NULL if this language
578 is unknown. Note that even if the returned pointer is valid, the caller
579 should @e not delete it.
581 @see GetLanguageInfo()
583 static const wxLanguageInfo
* FindLanguageInfo(const wxString
& locale
);
586 Returns the canonical form of current locale name. Canonical form is the
587 one that is used on UNIX systems: it is a two- or five-letter string in xx or
588 xx_YY format, where xx is ISO 639 code of language and YY is ISO 3166 code of
589 the country. Examples are "en", "en_GB", "en_US" or "fr_FR".
590 This form is internally used when looking up message catalogs.
591 Compare GetSysName().
593 wxString
GetCanonicalName() const;
596 Returns the header value for header @a header.
597 The search for @a header is case sensitive. If an @a domain is passed,
598 this domain is searched. Else all domains will be searched until a
599 header has been found.
601 The return value is the value of the header if found. Else this will be empty.
603 wxString
GetHeaderValue(const wxString
& header
,
604 const wxString
& domain
= wxEmptyString
) const;
607 Returns the ::wxLanguage constant of current language.
609 Note that you can call this function only if you used the form of
610 Init() that takes ::wxLanguage argument.
612 int GetLanguage() const;
615 Returns a pointer to wxLanguageInfo structure containing information about
616 the given language or @NULL if this language is unknown. Note that even if
617 the returned pointer is valid, the caller should @e not delete it.
619 See AddLanguage() for the wxLanguageInfo description.
620 As with Init(), @c wxLANGUAGE_DEFAULT has the special meaning if passed
621 as an argument to this function and in this case the result of
622 GetSystemLanguage() is used.
624 static const wxLanguageInfo
* GetLanguageInfo(int lang
);
627 Returns English name of the given language or empty string if this
630 See GetLanguageInfo() for a remark about special meaning of @c wxLANGUAGE_DEFAULT.
632 static wxString
GetLanguageName(int lang
);
635 Returns the locale name as passed to the constructor or Init().
637 This is a full, human-readable name, e.g. "English" or "French".
639 const wxString
& GetLocale() const;
642 Returns the current short name for the locale (as given to the constructor or
643 the Init() function).
645 const wxString
& GetName() const;
648 Retrieves the translation for a string in all loaded domains unless the @a domain
649 parameter is specified (and then only this catalog/domain is searched).
651 Returns original string if translation is not available (in this case an
652 error message is generated the first time a string is not found; use
653 wxLogNull to suppress it).
655 @remarks Domains are searched in the last to first order, i.e. catalogs
656 added later override those added before.
658 virtual const wxString
& GetString(const wxString
& origString
,
659 const wxString
& domain
= wxEmptyString
) const;
662 Retrieves the translation for a string in all loaded domains unless the @a domain
663 parameter is specified (and then only this catalog/domain is searched).
665 Returns original string if translation is not available (in this case an
666 error message is generated the first time a string is not found; use
667 wxLogNull to suppress it).
669 This form is used when retrieving translation of string that has different
670 singular and plural form in English or different plural forms in some
672 It takes two extra arguments: @a origString parameter must contain the
673 singular form of the string to be converted.
675 It is also used as the key for the search in the catalog.
676 The @a origString2 parameter is the plural form (in English).
678 The parameter @a n is used to determine the plural form.
679 If no message catalog is found @a origString is returned if 'n == 1',
680 otherwise @a origString2.
682 See GNU gettext manual for additional information on plural forms handling.
683 This method is called by the wxGetTranslation() function and _() macro.
685 @remarks Domains are searched in the last to first order, i.e. catalogs
686 added later override those added before.
688 virtual const wxString
& GetString(const wxString
& origString
,
689 const wxString
& origString2
, size_t n
,
690 const wxString
& domain
= wxEmptyString
) const;
693 Returns current platform-specific locale name as passed to setlocale().
694 Compare GetCanonicalName().
696 wxString
GetSysName() const;
699 Tries to detect the user's default font encoding.
700 Returns wxFontEncoding() value or @c wxFONTENCODING_SYSTEM if it
701 couldn't be determined.
703 static wxFontEncoding
GetSystemEncoding();
706 Tries to detect the name of the user's default font encoding.
707 This string isn't particularly useful for the application as its form is
708 platform-dependent and so you should probably use GetSystemEncoding() instead.
710 Returns a user-readable string value or an empty string if it couldn't be
713 static wxString
GetSystemEncodingName();
716 Tries to detect the user's default language setting.
718 Returns the ::wxLanguage value or @c wxLANGUAGE_UNKNOWN if the language-guessing
721 static int GetSystemLanguage();
724 Get the values of the given locale-dependent datum.
726 This function returns the value of the locale-specific option specified
727 by the given @a index.
730 One of the elements of wxLocaleInfo enum.
732 The category to use with the given index or wxLOCALE_CAT_DEFAULT if
733 the index can only apply to a single category.
735 The option value or empty string if the function failed.
737 static wxString
GetInfo(wxLocaleInfo index
,
738 wxLocaleCategory cat
= wxLOCALE_CAT_DEFAULT
);
741 Initializes the wxLocale instance.
743 The call of this function has several global side effects which you should
744 understand: first of all, the application locale is changed - note that
745 this will affect many of standard C library functions such as printf()
747 Second, this wxLocale object becomes the new current global locale for
748 the application and so all subsequent calls to wxGetTranslation() will
749 try to translate the messages using the message catalogs for this locale.
752 ::wxLanguage identifier of the locale.
753 @c wxLANGUAGE_DEFAULT has special meaning -- wxLocale will use system's
754 default language (see GetSystemLanguage()).
756 Combination of the following:
757 - wxLOCALE_LOAD_DEFAULT: Load the message catalog for the given locale
758 containing the translations of standard wxWidgets messages
760 - wxLOCALE_CONV_ENCODING: Automatically convert message catalogs to
761 platform's default encoding. Note that it will do only basic
762 conversion between well-known pair like iso8859-1 and windows-1252 or
763 iso8859-2 and windows-1250. See @ref overview_nonenglish for
764 detailed description of this behaviour.
765 Note that this flag is meaningless in Unicode build.
767 @return @true on success or @false if the given locale couldn't be set.
769 bool Init(int language
= wxLANGUAGE_DEFAULT
,
770 int flags
= wxLOCALE_LOAD_DEFAULT
| wxLOCALE_CONV_ENCODING
);
774 This form is deprecated, use the other one unless you know what you are doing.
777 The name of the locale. Only used in diagnostic messages.
779 The standard 2 letter locale abbreviation; it is used as the
780 directory prefix when looking for the message catalog files.
782 The parameter for the call to setlocale().
783 Note that it is platform-specific.
785 May be set to @false to prevent loading of the message catalog for the
786 given locale containing the translations of standard wxWidgets messages.
787 This parameter would be rarely used in normal circumstances.
788 @param bConvertEncoding
789 May be set to @true to do automatic conversion of message catalogs to
790 platform's native encoding. Note that it will do only basic conversion
791 between well-known pair like iso8859-1 and windows-1252 or iso8859-2
793 See @ref overview_nonenglish for detailed description of this behaviour.
795 bool Init(const wxString
& name
, const wxString
& short = wxEmptyString
,
796 const wxString
& locale
= wxEmptyString
, bool bLoadDefault
= true,
797 bool bConvertEncoding
= false);
800 Check whether the operating system and/or C run time environment supports
801 this locale. For example in Windows 2000 and Windows XP, support for many
802 locales is not installed by default. Returns @true if the locale is
805 The argument @a lang is the ::wxLanguage identifier. To obtain this for a
806 given a two letter ISO language code, use FindLanguageInfo() to obtain its
807 wxLanguageInfo structure.
808 See AddLanguage() for the wxLanguageInfo description.
812 static bool IsAvailable(int lang
);
815 Check if the given catalog is loaded, and returns @true if it is.
817 According to GNU gettext tradition, each catalog normally corresponds to
818 'domain' which is more or less the application name.
822 bool IsLoaded(const wxString
& domain
) const;
825 Returns @true if the locale could be set successfully.
833 // ============================================================================
834 // Global functions/macros
835 // ============================================================================
837 /** @addtogroup group_funcmacro_string */
841 This macro is identical to _() but for the plural variant of
844 @return A const wxString.
848 #define wxPLURAL(string, plural, n)
851 This macro doesn't do anything in the program code -- it simply expands to
852 the value of its argument.
854 However it does have a purpose which is to mark the literal strings for the
855 extraction into the message catalog created by @c xgettext program. Usually
856 this is achieved using _() but that macro not only marks the string for
857 extraction but also expands into a wxGetTranslation() call which means that
858 it cannot be used in some situations, notably for static array
861 Here is an example which should make it more clear: suppose that you have a
862 static array of strings containing the weekday names and which have to be
863 translated (note that it is a bad example, really, as wxDateTime already
864 can be used to get the localized week day names already). If you write:
867 static const char * const weekdays[] = { _("Mon"), ..., _("Sun") };
869 // use weekdays[n] as usual
872 The code wouldn't compile because the function calls are forbidden in the
873 array initializer. So instead you should do this:
876 static const char * const weekdays[] = { wxTRANSLATE("Mon"), ...,
877 wxTRANSLATE("Sun") };
879 // use wxGetTranslation(weekdays[n])
882 Note that although the code @b would compile if you simply omit
883 wxTRANSLATE() in the above, it wouldn't work as expected because there
884 would be no translations for the weekday names in the program message
885 catalog and wxGetTranslation() wouldn't find them.
887 @return A const wxChar*.
891 #define wxTRANSLATE(string)
894 This function returns the translation of @a string in the current
895 @c locale(). If the string is not found in any of the loaded message
896 catalogs (see @ref overview_i18n), the original string is returned. In
897 debug build, an error message is logged -- this should help to find the
898 strings which were not yet translated. If @a domain is specified then only
899 that domain/catalog is searched for a matching string. As this function is
900 used very often, an alternative (and also common in Unix world) syntax is
901 provided: the _() macro is defined to do the same thing as
904 This function calls wxLocale::GetString().
906 @note This function is not suitable for literal strings in Unicode builds
907 since the literal strings must be enclosed into _T() or wxT() macro
908 which makes them unrecognised by @c xgettext, and so they are not
909 extracted to the message catalog. Instead, use the _() and wxPLURAL()
910 macro for all literal strings.
912 @see wxGetTranslation(const wxString&, const wxString&, size_t, const wxString&)
916 const wxString
& wxGetTranslation(const wxString
& string
,
917 const wxString
& domain
= wxEmptyString
);
920 This is an overloaded version of
921 wxGetTranslation(const wxString&, const wxString&), please see its
922 documentation for general information.
924 This version is used when retrieving translation of string that has
925 different singular and plural forms in English or different plural forms in
926 some other language. Like wxGetTranslation(const wxString&,const wxString&),
927 the @a string parameter must contain the singular form of the string to be
928 converted and is used as the key for the search in the catalog. The
929 @a plural parameter is the plural form (in English). The parameter @a n is
930 used to determine the plural form. If no message catalog is found,
931 @a string is returned if "n == 1", otherwise @a plural is returned.
933 See GNU gettext Manual for additional information on plural forms handling:
934 <http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/gettext.html#Plural-forms>
935 For a shorter alternative see the wxPLURAL() macro.
937 This function calls wxLocale::GetString().
941 const wxString
& wxGetTranslation(const wxString
& string
,
942 const wxString
& plural
, size_t n
,
943 const wxString
& domain
= wxEmptyString
);
946 This macro expands into a call to wxGetTranslation(), so it marks the
947 message for the extraction by @c xgettext just as wxTRANSLATE() does, but
948 also returns the translation of the string for the current locale during
951 Don't confuse this with _T()!
955 const wxString
& _(const wxString
& string
);