Locale::Maketext::Simple 0.18

Locale::Maketext::Simple is a simple interface to Locale::Maketext::Lexicon.

SYNOPSIS

Minimal setup (looks for auto/Foo/*.po and auto/Foo/*.mo):

package Foo;
use Locale::Maketext::Simple; # exports loc
loc_lang(fr); # set language to French
sub hello {
print loc("Hello, [_1]!", "World");
}
More sophisticated example:

package Foo::Bar;
use Locale::Maketext::Simple (
Class => Foo, # search in auto/Foo/
Style => gettext, # %1 instead of [_1]
Export => maketext, # maketext() instead of loc()
Subclass => L10N, # Foo::L10N instead of Foo::I18N
Decode => 1, # decode entries to unicode-strings
Encoding => locale, # but encode lexicons in current locale
# (needs Locale::Maketext::Lexicon 0.36)
);
sub japh {
print maketext("Just another %1 hacker", "Perl");
}

This module is a simple wrapper around Locale::Maketext::Lexicon, designed to alleviate the need of creating Language Classes for module authors.
If Locale::Maketext::Lexicon is not present, it implements a minimal localization function by simply interpolating [_1] with the first argument, [_2] with the second, etc. Interpolated function like [quant,_1] are treated as [_1], with the sole exception of [tense,_1,X], which will append ing to _1 when X is present, or appending ed to <_1> otherwise.