NAME

       Log::Report::Translator - base implementation for translating messages

INHERITANCE

        Log::Report::Translator is extended by
          Log::Report::Translator::Gettext
          Log::Report::Translator::POT

SYNOPSIS

        # internal infrastructure
        my $msg = Log::Report::Message->new(_msgid => "Hello World\n");
        print Log::Report::Translator->new(...)->translate($msg);

        # normal use
        use Log::Report 'my-domain';
        print __"Hello World\n";

DESCRIPTION

       A module (or distribution) has a certain way of translating messages, usually "gettext".
       The translator is based on some "textdomain" for the message, which can be specified as
       option per text element, but usually is package scoped.

       This base class does not translate at all: it will use the MSGID (and MSGID_PLURAL if
       available).  It's a nice fallback if the language packs are not installed.

METHODS

   Constructors
       Log::Report::Translator->new(OPTIONS)
            -Option  --Default
             charset   <from locale>
             lexicons  <see text>

           charset => STRING
             When the locale contains a codeset in its name, then that will be used.  Otherwise,
             the default is "utf-8".

           lexicons => DIRECTORY|ARRAY-of-DIRECTORYs
             The DIRECTORY where the translations can be found.  See Log::Report::Lexicon::Index
             for the expected structure of such DIRECTORY.

             The default is based on the location of the module which instantiates this
             translator.  The filename of the module is stripped from its ".pm" extension, and
             used as directory name.  Within that directory, there must be a directory named
             "messages", which will be the root directory of a Log::Report::Lexicon::Index.

           example: default lexicon directory

            # file xxx/perl5.8.8/My/Module.pm
            use Log::Report 'my-domain'
              , translator => Log::Report::Translator::POT->new;

            # lexicon now in xxx/perl5.8.8/My/Module/messages/

   Accessors
       $obj->charset()
           Returns the default charset, which can be overrule by the locale.

       $obj->lexicons()
           Returns a list of Log::Report::Lexicon::Index objects, where the translation files may
           be located.

   Translating
       $obj->load(DOMAIN, LOCALE)
           Load the translation information in the text DOMAIN for the indicated LOCALE.
           Multiple calls to load() should not cost significant performance: the data must be
           cached.

       $obj->translate(MESSAGE, [LANGUAGE])
           Returns the translation of the MESSAGE, a "Log::Report::Message" object, based on the
           current locale.

           Translators are permitted to peek into the internal HASH of the message object, for
           performance reasons.

SEE ALSO

       This module is part of Log-Report distribution version 0.998, built on October 22, 2013.
       Website: http://perl.overmeer.net/log-report/

LICENSE

       Copyrights 2007-2013 by [Mark Overmeer]. For other contributors see ChangeLog.

       This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same
       terms as Perl itself.  See http://www.perl.com/perl/misc/Artistic.html