1<html> 2<head> 3<meta name="generator" content="groff -Thtml, see www.gnu.org"> 4<meta name="Content-Style" content="text/css"> 5<title>TEXTDOMAIN</title> 6</head> 7<body> 8 9<h1 align=center>TEXTDOMAIN</h1> 10<a href="#NAME">NAME</a><br> 11<a href="#SYNOPSIS">SYNOPSIS</a><br> 12<a href="#DESCRIPTION">DESCRIPTION</a><br> 13<a href="#RETURN VALUE">RETURN VALUE</a><br> 14<a href="#ERRORS">ERRORS</a><br> 15<a href="#BUGS">BUGS</a><br> 16<a href="#SEE ALSO">SEE ALSO</a><br> 17 18<hr> 19<!-- Creator : groff version 1.17 --> 20<a name="NAME"></a> 21<h2>NAME</h2> 22<table width="100%" border=0 rules="none" frame="void" 23 cols="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> 24<tr valign="top" align="left"> 25<td width="10%"></td><td width="90%"> 26textdomain - set domain for future gettext() calls</td></table> 27<a name="SYNOPSIS"></a> 28<h2>SYNOPSIS</h2> 29 30<table width="100%" border=0 rules="none" frame="void" 31 cols="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> 32<tr valign="top" align="left"> 33<td width="10%"></td><td width="90%"> 34<pre><b>#include <libintl.h> 35 36char * textdomain (const char *</b> <i>domainname</i><b>); 37</b></pre></td></table> 38<a name="DESCRIPTION"></a> 39<h2>DESCRIPTION</h2> 40 41<table width="100%" border=0 rules="none" frame="void" 42 cols="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> 43<tr valign="top" align="left"> 44<td width="10%"></td><td width="90%"> 45The <b>textdomain</b> function sets or retrieves the current 46message domain.</td></table> 47 48<table width="100%" border=0 rules="none" frame="void" 49 cols="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> 50<tr valign="top" align="left"> 51<td width="10%"></td><td width="90%"> 52A message domain is a set of translatable <i>msgid</i> 53messages. Usually, every software package has its own 54message domain. The domain name is used to determine the 55message catalog where a translation is looked up; it must be 56a non-empty string.</td></table> 57 58<table width="100%" border=0 rules="none" frame="void" 59 cols="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> 60<tr valign="top" align="left"> 61<td width="10%"></td><td width="90%"> 62The current message domain is used by the <b>gettext</b>, 63<b>ngettext</b> functions, and by the <b>dgettext</b>, 64<b>dcgettext</b>, <b>dngettext</b> and <b>dcngettext</b> 65functions when called with a NULL domainname 66argument.</td></table> 67 68<table width="100%" border=0 rules="none" frame="void" 69 cols="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> 70<tr valign="top" align="left"> 71<td width="10%"></td><td width="90%"> 72If <i>domainname</i> is not NULL, the current message domain 73is set to <i>domainname</i>. The string the function stores 74internally is a copy of the <i>domainname</i> 75argument.</td></table> 76 77<table width="100%" border=0 rules="none" frame="void" 78 cols="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> 79<tr valign="top" align="left"> 80<td width="10%"></td><td width="90%"> 81If <i>domainname</i> is NULL, the function returns the 82current message domain.</td></table> 83<a name="RETURN VALUE"></a> 84<h2>RETURN VALUE</h2> 85 86<table width="100%" border=0 rules="none" frame="void" 87 cols="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> 88<tr valign="top" align="left"> 89<td width="10%"></td><td width="90%"> 90If successful, the <b>textdomain</b> function returns the 91current message domain, after possibly changing it. The 92resulting string is valid until the next <b>textdomain</b> 93call and must not be modified or freed. If a memory 94allocation failure occurs, it sets <b>errno</b> to 95<b>ENOMEM</b> and returns NULL.</td></table> 96<a name="ERRORS"></a> 97<h2>ERRORS</h2> 98 99<table width="100%" border=0 rules="none" frame="void" 100 cols="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> 101<tr valign="top" align="left"> 102<td width="10%"></td><td width="90%"> 103The following error can occur, among others:</td></table> 104 105<table width="100%" border=0 rules="none" frame="void" 106 cols="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> 107<tr valign="top" align="left"> 108<td width="10%"></td><td width="90%"> 109<b>ENOMEM</b></td></table> 110 111<table width="100%" border=0 rules="none" frame="void" 112 cols="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> 113<tr valign="top" align="left"> 114<td width="21%"></td><td width="79%"> 115Not enough memory available.</td></table> 116<a name="BUGS"></a> 117<h2>BUGS</h2> 118 119<table width="100%" border=0 rules="none" frame="void" 120 cols="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> 121<tr valign="top" align="left"> 122<td width="10%"></td><td width="90%"> 123The return type ought to be <b>const char *</b>, but is 124<b>char *</b> to avoid warnings in C code predating ANSI 125C.</td></table> 126<a name="SEE ALSO"></a> 127<h2>SEE ALSO</h2> 128 129<table width="100%" border=0 rules="none" frame="void" 130 cols="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> 131<tr valign="top" align="left"> 132<td width="10%"></td><td width="90%"> 133<b>gettext</b>(3), <b>ngettext</b>(3), 134<b>bindtextdomain</b>(3), 135<b>bind_textdomain_codeset</b>(3)</td></table> 136<hr> 137</body> 138</html> 139