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Log::Report::Lexicon::Table(3pm)

generic interface to translation tables

NAME

Log::Report::Lexicon::Table - generic interface to translation tables

INHERITANCE

 Log::Report::Lexicon::Table is extended by
   Log::Report::Lexicon::MOTcompact
   Log::Report::Lexicon::POT
   Log::Report::Lexicon::POTcompact

SYNOPSIS

  # use one of the extensions, for instance:
  my $pot = Log::Report::Lexicon::POT
     ->read('po/nl.po', charset => 'utf-8')
         or panic;

DESCRIPTION

This base class defines the generic interface for translation tables.

Currently, there are three extensions:

•

Log::Report::Lexicon::POT

This is a relatively heavy implementation, used to read but also to write PO files. It is used by xgettext-perl, for instance, to administer the collection of discovered msgid's.

•

Log::Report::Lexicon::POTcompact

Light-weighted read-only access to PO-file information.

•

Log::Report::Lexicon::MOTcompact

Read-only access to MO-file information. These binary MO-files are super efficient.

METHODS

Constructors

Log::Report::Lexicon::Table->new(%options)

Attributes

Managing PO's

Translation

$obj->msgid( STRING, [$msgctxt] )

Lookup the Log::Report::Lexicon::PO with the STRING. Returns "undef" when not defined.

$obj->msgstr( $msgid, [$count, $msgctxt] )

Returns the translated string for $msgid. When not specified, $count is 1.

Administration

$obj->add($po)

Add the information from a $po into this POT. If the msgid of the $po is already known, that is an error.

$obj->header($field)

The translation of a blank MSGID is used to store a MIME header, which contains some meta-data. The $field value is looked-up (case-insensitive) and returned.

$obj->nrPlurals()

Returns the number of plurals, when not known then '2'.

$obj->pluralIndex($count)

Returns the msgstr index used to translate a value of $count.

$obj->setupPluralAlgorithm()

This method needs to be called after setting (reading or creating) a new table header, to interpret the plural algorithm as specified in the "Plural-Forms" header field. [1.09] The header field is not required when not used.

A full list of plural forms per language can be found at http://docs.translatehouse.org/projects/localization-guide/en/latest/l10n/pluralforms.html

$obj->translations( [$active] )

Returns a list with all defined Log::Report::Lexicon::PO objects. When the string $active is given as parameter, only objects which have references are returned.

DIAGNOSTICS

Error: only acceptable parameter is 'ACTIVE'

SEE ALSO

This module is part of Log-Report-Lexicon distribution version 1.12, built on April 18, 2025. Website: http://perl.overmeer.net/CPAN/

LICENSE

Copyrights 2007-2025 by [Mark Overmeer <[email protected]>]. For other contributors see ChangeLog.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. See http://dev.perl.org/licenses/

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