NAME

SYNOPSIS

    use Data::Localize;

    my $loc = Data::Localize->new();
    $loc->add_localizer(
        class      => "Namespace", # Locale::Maketext-style .pm files
        namespaces => [ "MyApp::I18N" ]
    );

    $loc->add_localizer( 
        class => "Gettext",
        path  => "/path/to/localization/data/*.po"
    );

    $loc->set_languages();
    # or explicitly set one
    # $loc->set_languages('en', 'ja' );

    # looks under $self->languages, and checks if there are any
    # localizers that can handle the job
    $loc->localize( 'Hellow, [_1]!', 'John Doe' );

    # You can enable "auto", which will be your last resort fallback.
    # The key you give to the localize method will be used as the lexicon
    $self->auto(1);

DESCRIPTION

RATIONALE

BASIC WORKING

    # here, we're deliberately not setting any localizers
    my $loc = Data::Localize->new(auto => 1);

    # previous auto => 1 will force Data::Localize to fallback to
    # using the key ('Hello, [_1]') as the localization token.
    print $loc->localize('Hello, [_1]', 'John Doe'), "\n";

UTF8

Using Explicit decode()

    use Encode q(decode decode_utf8);
    use Data::Localizer;

    my $loc = Data::Localize->new(...);

    $loc->localize( $key, decode( 'iso-2022-jp', $value ) );

    # if $value is encoded utf8...
    # $loc->localize( $key, decode_utf8( $value ) );
    

Using utf8

"use utf8" is simpler, but do note that it will affect ALL your literal strings in the current scope

    use utf8;

    $loc->localize( $key, "some-utf8-key-here" );
    

USING ALTERNATE STORAGE

    my $loc = Data::Localize->new();
    $loc->add_localizer(
        class         => 'Gettext',
        path          => '/path/to/data/*.po'
        storage_class => 'BerkeleyDB',
        storage_args  => {
            dir => '/path/to/really/fast/device'
        }
    );

This would cause Data::Localize to put all the lexicon data in several BerkeleyDB files under /path/to/really/fast/device

Note that this approach would buy you no gain if you use Data::Localize::Namespace, as that approach by default expects everything to be in memory.

DEBUGGING

    DATA_LOCALIZE_DEBUG=1 ./yourscript.pl

    BEGIN {
        *Data::Localize::DEBUG = sub () { 1 };
    }
    use Data::Localize;

METHODS

    $loc->add_localizer( YourLocalizer->new );

    $loc->add_localizer(
        class => "Namespace",
        namespaces => [ 'Blah' ]
    );

    $localized_string = $loc->localize( $id, @args );

    my @locs = $loc->find_localizers(isa => 'Data::Localize::Gettext');

PERFORMANCE

  Running benchmarks with
    Locale::Maketext: 1.23
    Data::Localize:   0.00023
                       Rate D::L(Namespace)   L::M D::L(Gettext) D::L(Gettext+BDB)
  D::L(Namespace)    5051/s              --   -65%          -73%              -73%
  L::M              14423/s            186%     --          -24%              -24%
  D::L(Gettext)     18868/s            274%    31%            --               -1%
  D::L(Gettext+BDB) 18987/s            276%    32%            1%                --

  Running benchmarks with
    Locale::Maketext: 1.23
    Data::Localize:   0.00023
                        Rate D::L(Namespace) D::L(Gettext+BDB) D::L(Gettext)  L::M
  D::L(Namespace)     6023/s              --              -65%          -69%  -96%
  D::L(Gettext+BDB)  17202/s            186%                --          -12%  -87%
  D::L(Gettext)      19548/s            225%               14%            --  -86%
  L::M              135993/s           2158%              691%          596%    --

TODO

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