TEXTDOMAIN(3)                                                                                                      TEXTDOMAIN(3)



NAME
       textdomain - set domain for future gettext() calls

SYNOPSIS
       #include <libintl.h>

       char * textdomain (const char * domainname);

DESCRIPTION
       The textdomain function sets or retrieves the current message domain.

       A message domain is a set of translatable msgid messages. Usually, every software package has its own message domain. The
       domain name is used to determine the message catalog where a translation is looked up; it must be a non-empty string.

       The current message domain is used by the gettext, ngettext functions, and by  the  dgettext,  dcgettext,  dngettext  and
       dcngettext functions when called with a NULL domainname argument.

       If  domainname is not NULL, the current message domain is set to domainname. The string the function stores internally is
       a copy of the domainname argument.

       If domainname is NULL, the function returns the current message domain.

RETURN VALUE
       If successful, the textdomain function returns the current message domain, after  possibly  changing  it.  The  resulting
       string  is valid until the next textdomain call and must not be modified or freed. If a memory allocation failure occurs,
       it sets errno to ENOMEM and returns NULL.

ERRORS
       The following error can occur, among others:

       ENOMEM Not enough memory available.

BUGS
       The return type ought to be const char *, but is char * to avoid warnings in C code predating ANSI C.

SEE ALSO
       gettext(3), ngettext(3), bindtextdomain(3), bind_textdomain_codeset(3)



GNU gettext 0.18.1                                          May 2001                                               TEXTDOMAIN(3)