TEXTDOMAIN
#NAME
NAME
#SYNOPSIS
SYNOPSIS
#DESCRIPTION
DESCRIPTION
#RETURN VALUE
RETURN VALUE
#ERRORS
ERRORS
#BUGS
BUGS
#SEE ALSO
SEE ALSO
NAME
textdomain - set domain for future gettext() calls
SYNOPSIS
#include <libintl.h>
char * textdomain (const char *
domainname
);
DESCRIPTION
The
textdomain
function sets or retrieves the current
message domain.
A message domain is a set of translatable
msgid
messages. Usually, every software package has its own
message domain. The domain name is used to determine the
message catalog where a translation is looked up; it must be
a non-empty string.
The current message domain is used by the
gettext
,
ngettext
functions, and by the
dgettext
,
dcgettext
,
dngettext
and
dcngettext
functions when called with a NULL domainname
argument.
If
domainname
is not NULL, the current message domain
is set to
domainname
. The string the function stores
internally is a copy of the
domainname
argument.
If
domainname
is NULL, the function returns the
current message domain.
RETURN VALUE
If successful, the
textdomain
function returns the
current message domain, after possibly changing it. The
resulting string is valid until the next
textdomain
call and must not be modified or freed. If a memory
allocation failure occurs, it sets
errno
to
ENOMEM
and returns NULL.
ERRORS
The following error can occur, among others:
ENOMEM
Not enough memory available.
BUGS
The return type ought to be
const char *
, but is
char *
to avoid warnings in C code predating ANSI
C.
SEE ALSO
gettext
(3),
ngettext
(3),
bindtextdomain
(3),
bind_textdomain_codeset
(3)
