Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 13:47:34 -0500 From: Lucas Bergman <lucas@slb.to> To: j mckitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OT: odd string type question Message-ID: <20010518134734.A29486@billygoat.slb.to> In-Reply-To: <20010518174841.A94130@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>; from jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org on Fri, May 18, 2001 at 05:48:41PM %2B0100 References: <20010518174841.A94130@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>
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> I was rooting around in some code for a gtk email client, and i
> found many strings defined like this:
>
> _("string here")
>
> and then they are passed to various functions. The prototypes and
> function headers say they are gchar *, but i still don't get it.
> What does _() do?
Those are usually gettext() calls. Check out the documentation for
gettext at gnu.org.
Lucas
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