Re: How to use $"msgid"?

[Greg Wooledge]

On Tue, Mar 23, 2021 at 09:14:56AM -0500, Jesse Hathaway wrote:
> There is a little more info in the manual:
> 
>   A double-quoted string preceded by a dollar sign ($"string") will cause
>   the  string to be translated according to the current locale.  The get-
>   text infrastructure performs the message catalog  lookup  and  transla-
>   tion,  using  the  LC_MESSAGES  and TEXTDOMAIN shell variables.  If the
>   current locale is C or POSIX, or if there are  no  translations  avail-
>   able,  the dollar sign is ignored.  If the string is translated and re-
>   placed, the replacement is double-quoted.
> 
> This stack overflow snippet shows the basic usage:
> https://stackoverflow.com/a/29358585/1236063
> 
>   LANG=foo_BAR.utf8
>   TEXTDOMAIN="test"
>   TEXTDOMAINDIR="/usr/share/locale"
>   echo $"fooMsgid"
>   # bash --dump-po-strings <scriptfile>
> 
> This linux journal article details creating the translation files:
> 
> https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/internationalizing-those-bash-scripts

There's also <https://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashFAQ/098>.  Take note of
the security warnings.