Hi Isaac,

Isaac Clerencia wrote:
> Hi Guido, I'm using Locale::TextDomain to i18n'ize a project, the project
> is a web-based interface which uses Perl templates (HTML::Template) and I
> insert the i18n'ized strings in the template like:
> <title><TMPL_VAR EXPR="__('Project')"></title>
> The problem is that Locale::TextDomain uses a different textdomain for each
> package which needs to be set individually (AFAIK) and I can't set the
> textdomain for HTML::Template::Expr as it is an external library.
> Is there a way to set the textdomain for a package from outside the package?

One of the following may work (in order of sanity):

a) Change the default textdomain from "messages" to something different with
Locale::Messages::textdomain().  This will affect the default textdomain for
all packages.  Unfortunately you will need a not yet released version 1.12 of
libintl-perl, since your mail has brought a bug to the surface.  You can also
fix it yourself: In line 216 of Locale::TextDomain (subroutine "import") you
will find a line:

    $textdomain = 'messages' unless
        defined $textdomain && length $textdomain;

This should read:

    $textdomain = Locale::Messages::textdomain() unless
        defined $textdomain && length $textdomain;

b)

    ...
    package HTML::Template::Expr;
    use Locale::TextDomain qw (mydomain);
    package BackToMyPackage;
    ...

c) Change the textdomain for your po/mo files to "messages", and make sure
that they will be found.

Ciao

Guido
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