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authorJarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>2001-06-22 12:16:41 +0000
committerJarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>2001-06-22 12:16:41 +0000
commit5dc6f17881b619bdebc328d265c5f4aa5fe76263 (patch)
treee431a2280d82795e08f6e2229be7fe626ea9e6cc /lib/Locale
parent3a9c887ec5858f682dcfa670925a52c00d6a8199 (diff)
downloadperl-5dc6f17881b619bdebc328d265c5f4aa5fe76263.tar.gz
The #10792 didn't take, and s/sighni/signi/, as noticed by
Philip Newton. p4raw-id: //depot/perl@10821
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/Locale')
-rw-r--r--lib/Locale/Maketext.pod24
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/lib/Locale/Maketext.pod b/lib/Locale/Maketext.pod
index ef5e66ebbc..e629b9049a 100644
--- a/lib/Locale/Maketext.pod
+++ b/lib/Locale/Maketext.pod
@@ -110,7 +110,9 @@ These are to do with constructing a language handle:
=over
-=item $lh = YourProjClass->get_handle( ...langtags... ) || die "lg-handle?";
+=item *
+
+$lh = YourProjClass->get_handle( ...langtags... ) || die "lg-handle?";
This tries loading classes based on the language-tags you give (like
C<("en-US", "sk", "kon", "es-MX", "ja", "i-klingon")>, and for the first class
@@ -131,7 +133,9 @@ then if nothing comes of that, we use classes named by
YourProjClass->fallback_language_classes(). Then in the (probably
quite unlikely) event that that fails, we just return undef.
-=item $lh = YourProjClass->get_handleB<()> || die "lg-handle?";
+=item *
+
+$lh = YourProjClass->get_handleB<()> || die "lg-handle?";
When C<get_handle> is called with an empty parameter list, magic happens:
@@ -171,13 +175,17 @@ file, you might consider something like this in your project class:
return $lh;
}
-=item $lh = YourProjClass::langname->new();
+=item *
+
+$lh = YourProjClass::langname->new();
This constructs a language handle. You usually B<don't> call this
directly, but instead let C<get_handle> find a language class to C<use>
and to then call ->new on.
-=item $lh->init();
+=item *
+
+$lh->init();
This is called by ->new to initialize newly-constructed language handles.
If you define an init method in your class, remember that it's usually
@@ -185,7 +193,9 @@ considered a good idea to call $lh->SUPER::init in it (presumably at the
beginning), so that all classes get a chance to initialize a new object
however they see fit.
-=item YourProjClass->fallback_languages()
+=item *
+
+YourProjClass->fallback_languages()
C<get_handle> appends the return value of this to the end of
whatever list of languages you pass C<get_handle>. Unless
@@ -201,7 +211,9 @@ C<get_handle> will always manage to construct a language
handle (assuming your language classes are in an appropriate
@INC directory). Or you can use the next method:
-=item YourProjClass->fallback_language_classes()
+=item *
+
+YourProjClass->fallback_language_classes()
C<get_handle> appends the return value of this to the end
of the list of classes it will try using. Unless