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From: Lucas Bergman <lucas@slb.to>
To: j mckitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org>
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Subject: Re: OT: odd string type question
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> 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?

Those are usually gettext() calls.  Check out the documentation for
gettext at gnu.org.

Lucas

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