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<!-- Creator : groff version 1.22.3 --> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <html> <head> <meta name="generator" content="groff -Thtml, see www.gnu.org"> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=US-ASCII"> <meta name="Content-Style" content="text/css"> <style type="text/css"> p { margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; vertical-align: top } pre { margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; vertical-align: top } table { margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; vertical-align: top } h1 { text-align: center } </style> <title>BINDTEXTDOMAIN</title> </head> <body> <h1 align="center">BINDTEXTDOMAIN</h1> <a href="#NAME">NAME</a><br> <a href="#SYNOPSIS">SYNOPSIS</a><br> <a href="#DESCRIPTION">DESCRIPTION</a><br> <a href="#RETURN VALUE">RETURN VALUE</a><br> <a href="#ERRORS">ERRORS</a><br> <a href="#BUGS">BUGS</a><br> <a href="#SEE ALSO">SEE ALSO</a><br> <hr> <h2>NAME <a name="NAME"></a> </h2> <p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">bindtextdomain - set directory containing message catalogs</p> <h2>SYNOPSIS <a name="SYNOPSIS"></a> </h2> <p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em"><b>#include <libintl.h></b></p> <p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em"><b>char * bindtextdomain (const char *</b> <i>domainname</i><b>, const char *</b> <i>dirname</i><b>);</b></p> <h2>DESCRIPTION <a name="DESCRIPTION"></a> </h2> <p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">The <b>bindtextdomain</b> function sets the base directory of the hierarchy containing message catalogs for a given message domain.</p> <p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">A message domain is a set of translatable <i>msgid</i> messages. Usually, every software package has its own message domain. The need for calling <b>bindtextdomain</b> arises because packages are not always installed with the same prefix as the <libintl.h> header and the libc/libintl libraries.</p> <p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">Message catalogs will be expected at the pathnames <i>dirname</i>/<i>locale</i>/<i>category</i>/<i>domainname</i>.mo, where <i>locale</i> is a locale name and <i>category</i> is a locale facet such as <b>LC_MESSAGES</b>.</p> <p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em"><i>domainname</i> must be a non-empty string.</p> <p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">If <i>dirname</i> is not NULL, the base directory for message catalogs belonging to domain <i>domainname</i> is set to <i>dirname</i>. The function makes copies of the argument strings as needed. If the program wishes to call the <b>chdir</b> function, it is important that <i>dirname</i> be an absolute pathname; otherwise it cannot be guaranteed that the message catalogs will be found.</p> <p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">If <i>dirname</i> is NULL, the function returns the previously set base directory for domain <i>domainname</i>.</p> <h2>RETURN VALUE <a name="RETURN VALUE"></a> </h2> <p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">If successful, the <b>bindtextdomain</b> function returns the current base directory for domain <i>domainname</i>, after possibly changing it. The resulting string is valid until the next <b>bindtextdomain</b> call for the same <i>domainname</i> and must not be modified or freed. If a memory allocation failure occurs, it sets <b>errno</b> to <b>ENOMEM</b> and returns NULL.</p> <h2>ERRORS <a name="ERRORS"></a> </h2> <p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">The following error can occur, among others:</p> <table width="100%" border="0" rules="none" frame="void" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr valign="top" align="left"> <td width="11%"></td> <td width="9%"> <p><b>ENOMEM</b></p></td> <td width="2%"></td> <td width="43%"> <p>Not enough memory available.</p></td> <td width="35%"> </td></tr> </table> <h2>BUGS <a name="BUGS"></a> </h2> <p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">The return type ought to be <b>const char *</b>, but is <b>char *</b> to avoid warnings in C code predating ANSI C.</p> <h2>SEE ALSO <a name="SEE ALSO"></a> </h2> <p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em"><b>gettext</b>(3), <b>dgettext</b>(3), <b>dcgettext</b>(3), <b>ngettext</b>(3), <b>dngettext</b>(3), <b>dcngettext</b>(3), <b>textdomain</b>(3), <b>realpath</b>(3)</p> <hr> </body> </html>