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\section{\class{wxLocale}}\label{wxlocale}
-wxLocale class encapsulates all language dependent settings and is a
-generalization of the C locale concept (see also setlocale(3)).
+wxLocale class encapsulates all language-dependent settings and is a
+generalization of the C locale concept.
In wxWindows this class manages message catalogs which contain the translations
of the strings used to the current language.
No base class
+\wxheading{See also}
+
+\helpref{I18n overview}{internationalization}
+
+\wxheading{Include files}
+
+<wx/intl.h>
+
\latexignore{\rtfignore{\wxheading{Members}}}
\membersection{wxLocale::wxLocale}\label{wxlocaledefctor}
\func{}{wxLocale}{\void}
This is the default constructor and it does nothing to initialize the object:
-\helpref{Init()}{wxlocaleinit} must be used to do it.
+\helpref{Init()}{wxlocaleinit} must be used to do that.
-\membersection{wxLocale::wxLocale}\label{wxlocalewxlocale}
-
-\func{}{wxLocale}{\param{const char }{*szName}, \param{const char }{*szShort = NULL}, \param{const char }{*szLocale = NULL}, \param{bool }{bLoadDefault = TRUE}}
+\func{}{wxLocale}{\param{const char }{*szName}, \param{const char }{*szShort = NULL}, \param{const char }{*szLocale = NULL}, \param{bool }{bLoadDefault = TRUE}, \param{bool }{bConvertEncoding = FALSE}}
The parameters have the following meaning:
\begin{itemize}\itemsep=0pt
\item bLoadDefault may be set to FALSE to prevent loading of the message catalog
for the given locale containing the translations of standard wxWindows messages.
This parameter would be rarely used in normal circumstances.
+\item bConvertEncoding may be set to TRUE to do automatic conversion of message
+catalogs to platform's native encoding. Note that it will do only basic
+conversion between well-known pair like iso8859-1 and windows-1252 or
+iso8859-2 and windows-1250.
+See \helpref{Writing non-English applications}{nonenglishoverview} for detailed
+description of this behaviour.
\end{itemize}
The call of this function has several global side effects which you should
\func{}{\destruct{wxLocale}}{\void}
-Destructor, like the constructor, also has global side effects: the previously
+The destructor, like the constructor, also has global side effects: the previously
set locale is restored and so the changes described in
\helpref{Init}{wxlocaleinit} documentation are rolled back.
Returns the locale name as passed to the constructor or
\helpref{Init()}{wxlocaleinit}.
-
\membersection{wxLocale::AddCatalog}\label{wxlocaleaddcatalog}
\func{bool}{AddCatalog}{\param{const char }{*szDomain}}
Add a catalog for use with the current locale: it's searched for in standard
-places (current directory first, system one after), but you may also prepend
+places (current directory first, then the system one), but you may also prepend
additional directories to the search path with
-\helpref{AddCatalogLookupPathPrefix().}{wxlocaleaddcataloglookuppathprefix}.
+\helpref{AddCatalogLookupPathPrefix()}{wxlocaleaddcataloglookuppathprefix}.
All loaded catalogs will be used for message lookup by GetString() for the
current locale.
\func{bool}{Init}{\param{const char }{*szName}, \param{const char }{*szShort = NULL}, \param{const char }{*szLocale = NULL}, \param{bool }{bLoadDefault = TRUE}}
The parameters have the following meaning:
+
\begin{itemize}\itemsep=0pt
\item szName is the name of the locale and is only used in diagnostic messages
\item szShort is the standard 2 letter locale abbreviation and is used as the
\membersection{wxLocale::IsLoaded}\label{wxlocaleisloaded}
-\constfunc{bool}{IsLoaded}{\param{const char }{*szDomain}}
+\constfunc{bool}{IsLoaded}{\param{const char* }{domain}}
-Check if the given catalog (according to GNU gettext tradition each catalog
-normally corresponds to 'domain' which is more or less the application name)
-is loaded, returns TRUE if it is.
+Check if the given catalog is loaded, and returns TRUE if it is.
+
+According to GNU gettext tradition, each catalog
+normally corresponds to 'domain' which is more or less the application name.
See also: \helpref{AddCatalog}{wxlocaleaddcatalog}
\constfunc{const char*}{GetString}{\param{const char }{*szOrigString}, \param{const char }{*szDomain = NULL}}
-Retrieve the translation for a string in all loaded domains unless the szDomain
+Retrieves the translation for a string in all loaded domains unless the szDomain
parameter is specified (and then only this catalog/domain is searched).
Returns original string if translation is not available
(in this case an error message is generated the first time
a string is not found; use \helpref{wxLogNull}{wxlogoverview} to suppress it).
-Remark: domains are searched in the last to first order, i.e. catalogs
+\wxheading{Remarks}
+
+Domains are searched in the last to first order, i.e. catalogs
added later override those added before.
+