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Date:      Fri, 18 May 2001 17:48:41 +0100
From:      j mckitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   odd string type question
Message-ID:  <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?

Jonathon
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When I die, I want to go in my sleep, like my grandfather.
Not screaming, like the passengers in his car.

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