From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 18 9:49:27 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from probity.mcc.ac.uk (probity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.94]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8379237B422 for ; Fri, 18 May 2001 09:49:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jcm@freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org ([130.88.200.97] ident=root) by probity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 2.05 #4) id 150nRA-000LkP-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 18 May 2001 17:49:12 +0100 Received: (from jcm@localhost) by dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f4IGmfU94189 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 18 May 2001 17:48:41 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from jcm) Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 17:48:41 +0100 From: j mckitrick To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: odd string type question Message-ID: <20010518174841.A94130@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I was rooting around in some code for a gtk email client, and i found many strings defined like this: _("string here") and then they are passed to various functions. The prototypes and function headers say they are gchar *, but i still don't get it. What does _() do? Jonathon -- When I die, I want to go in my sleep, like my grandfather. Not screaming, like the passengers in his car. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message