Catalog Class

A wrapper to the libintl library providing message translation capabilities.

Syntax

public class Catalog

Remarks

The following example demonstrates the use of the Mono.Unix.Catalog type. See also: http://www.mono-project.com/Internationalization.

C# Example

// File: i18n.cs
using System;
using Mono.Unix;
 
public class i18n
{
    public static void Main(string[] argv)
    {
        Catalog.Init ("i18n", "./locale");
        Console.WriteLine (Catalog.GetString ("My name is") + " Enzo");
        int i = 20;
        Console.WriteLine (Catalog.GetPluralString ("I'm {0} year old.",
				    "I'm {0} years old.", i), i);
    }
}

To generate the translations, use:

sh Example

xgettext --from-code=UTF-8 i18n.cs -o es.po

Edit the translations in es.po, then compile the translations and copy the file so that libintl can find it:

sh Example

mkdir -p locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/
msgfmt es.po -o locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/i18n.mo

To run your example with the new translations:

sh Example

LANGUAGE=es mono i18n.exe

Thread Safety

All public static members of this type are safe for multithreaded operations. No instance members are guaranteed to be thread safe.

Requirements

Namespace: Mono.Unix
Assembly: Mono.Posix (in Mono.Posix.dll)
Assembly Versions: 1.0.5000.0, 2.0.0.0, 4.0.0.0