Arguments

myDomain

a string, the name of the messages domain

myString

a string, the message to be translated

Description

gettext(myString) gets the translation of a string myString to the current locale in the current domain.

gettext(myDomain, myString) gets the translation of a string myString to the myDomain domain.

_(myString) is an alias of gettext(myString).

_(myDomain, myString) is an alias of gettext(myDomain, myString).

Examples

setlanguage("fr_FR");
gettext("Startup execution:")
_("Startup execution:")
addlocalizationdomain("tbx", "SCI/modules/localization/tests/unit_tests/locale")
gettext("tbx", "%s: something not in Scilab.\n")
_("tbx", "%s: something not in Scilab.\n")

See also

• addlocalizationdomain — add a new domain in localization mechanism.

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