Re: Use of gettext in scripts

[Julian Gilbey <J.D.Gilbey@qmw.ac.uk>]

I wrote:
> So the following looks like a possibility, but it's a bit yucky:
> 
> sh:    text=`gettext -s 'I am a $name, what are you?'`
>        eval echo $text
> perl:  $text=gettext 'I am a $name, what are you?';
>        eval "print $text, '\n'";

Of course, the following would actually work:
sh:    text=`gettext -s 'I am a $name, what are you?'`
       eval echo "$text"
perl:  $text=gettext 'I am a $name, what are you?';
       eval "print qq($text), '\n'";

Note the extra quotes!

   Julian

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