TEXTDOMAIN(3)          FreeBSD Library Functions Manual          TEXTDOMAIN(3)

NAME

     textdomain - set domain for future gettext() calls

SYNOPSIS

     #include <libintl.h>

     char * textdomain (const char * domainname);

DESCRIPTION

     The textdomain function sets or retrieves the current message domain.

     A message domain is a set of translatable msgid messages. Usually, every
     software package has its own message domain. The domain name is used to
     determine the message catalog where a translation is looked up; it must
     be a non-empty string.

     The current message domain is used by the gettext, ngettext functions,
     and by the dgettext, dcgettext, dngettext and dcngettext functions when
     called with a NULL domainname argument.

     If domainname is not NULL, the current message domain is set to
     domainname. The string the function stores internally is a copy of the
     domainname argument.

     If domainname is NULL, the function returns the current message domain.

RETURN VALUE

     If successful, the textdomain function returns the current message
     domain, after possibly changing it. The resulting string is valid until
     the next textdomain call and must not be modified or freed. If a memory
     allocation failure occurs, it sets errno to ENOMEM and returns NULL.

ERRORS

     The following error can occur, among others:

     ENOMEM Not enough memory available.

BUGS

     The return type ought to be const char *, but is char * to avoid warnings
     in C code predating ANSI C.

SEE ALSO

     gettext(3), ngettext(3), bindtextdomain(3), bind_textdomain_codeset(3)

GNU gettext 1.0                    May 2001                      TEXTDOMAIN(3)