Simple ambiguitity-resolution wrapper for gettext; use for

[ardour.git] / libs / pbd / convert.cc

diff --git a/libs/pbd/convert.cc b/libs/pbd/convert.cc
index bda0683910661f6f9e352fbe86e7fd8ff85c7795..02d7f3c0a415fcf9621a7d0bef8d20f7de2bd542 100644 (file)
--- a/libs/pbd/convert.cc
+++ b/libs/pbd/convert.cc
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@
 #include <stdlib.h>
 #include <cstdio>
 #include <ctype.h>
+#include <cstring>
 #ifndef __STDC_FORMAT_MACROS
 #define __STDC_FORMAT_MACROS
 #endif
@@ -325,5 +326,19 @@ strings_equal_ignore_case (const string& a, const string& b)
        return false;
 }
 
+/** A wrapper for dgettext that takes a msgid of the form Context|Text.
+ *  If Context|Text is translated, the translation is returned, otherwise
+ *  just Text is returned.  Useful for getting translations of words or phrases
+ *  that have different meanings in different contexts.
+ */
+const char *
+sgettext (const char* domain_name, const char* msgid)
+{
+       const char * msgval = dgettext (domain_name, msgid);
+       if (msgval == msgid) {
+               msgval = strrchr (msgid, '|') + 1;
+       }
+       return msgval;
+}
 
 } // namespace PBD