NAME

Text::Domain - Localization of gettext domain settings

SYNOPSIS

 use Text::Domain;

 {
    my $domain = new Text::Domain 'xyz';
    # do stuff here
 } # restore old textdomain on exit of block

OR

 use Text::Domain qw: pushtextdomain poptextdomain :;

 pushtextdomain 'xyz';
 # do stuff here
 poptextdomain   # restore old textdomain

DESCRIPTION

Text::Domain provides an easy way to temporarily change text domains with Locale::gettext|Locale::gettext without forgetting the previous one. Two methods are provided -- a functional, stack-based method, and an object-oriented method.

The two ways of managing domain changes are not inter-operable. They must be properly nested or the gettext functions might have a different notion of what the domain is than your program does.

For example, the following is allowable:

 {
    my $domain = new Text::Domain 'my_program';

    # do stuff

    pushtextdomain 'your_program';

    # do some more stuff

    poptextdomain

    # finish up
 }

The above results in the following calls to textdomain:

 $t1 = textdomain('my_program');
 $t2 = textdomain('your_program');
 textdomain($t2) # restoring 'my_program'
 textdomain($t1) # restoring original state

But the following will probably lead to some confusion somewhere:

 {
    my $domain = new Text::Domain 'my_program';

    # do stuff

    pushtextdomain 'your_program';

    # finish up
 }

 # do some more stuff

 poptextdomain

This results in the following calls to textdomain:

 $t1 = textdomain('my_program');
 $t2 = textdomain('your_program');
 textdomain($t1) # restoring original state
 textdomain($t2) # restoring 'my_program'

SEE ALSO

Locale::gettext.

AUTHOR

James G. Smith <jsmith@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 2001 Texas A&M University. All Rights Reserved.

This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.