Linux Standard Base Core Specification 4.0
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bindtextdomain

Name

bindtextdomain -- specify the location of a message catalog

Synopsis

#include <libintl.h>

char * bindtextdomain(const char * domainname, const char * dirname);

Description

The bindtextdomain() shall set the the base directory of the hierarchy containing message catalogs for a given message domain.

The bindtextdomain() function specifies that the domainname message catalog can be found in the dirname directory hierarchy, rather than in the system default locale data base.

If dirname is not NULL, the base directory for message catalogs belonging to domain domainname shall be set to dirname. If dirname is NULL, the base directory for message catalogs shall not be altered.

The function shall make copies of the argument strings as needed.

dirname can be an absolute or relative pathname.

Note: Applications that wish to use chdir() should always use absolute pathnames to avoid misadvertently selecting the wrong or non-existant directory.

If domainname is the null pointer, or is an empty string, bindtextdomain() shall fail, but need not set errno.

The bindtextdomain() function shall return a pointer to a string containing the name of the selected directory. The string shall be allocated internally in the function and shall not be changed or freed by the user.

Return Value

On success, bindtextdomain() shall return a pointer to a string containing the directory pathname currently bound to the domain. On failure, a NULL pointer is returned, and the global variable errno may be set to indicate the error.

Errors

ENOMEM 

Insufficient memory was available.

See Also

gettext, dgettext, ngettext, dngettext, dcgettext, dcngettext, textdomain, bind_textdomain_codeset

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