Defined in header <locale> | ||
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public: catalog open( const std::basic_string<char>& name, const std::locale& loc ) const; | (1) | |
protected: virtual catalog do_open( const std::basic_string<char>& name, const std::locale& loc ) const; | (2) |
1) Public member function, calls the protected virtual member function do_open
of the most derived class.
2) Obtains a value of type catalog
(inherited from std::messages_base
), which can be passed to get()
to retrieve messages from the message catalog named by name
. This value is usable until passed to close()
.
Parameters
name | - | name of the message catalog to open |
loc | - | a locale object that provides additional facets that may be required to read messages from the catalog, such as std::codecvt to perform wide/multibyte conversions |
Return value
The non-negative value of type catalog
that can be used with get()
and close()
. Returns a negative value if the catalog could not be opened.
Notes
On POSIX systems, this function call usually translates to a call to catopen()
. In GNU libstdc++, it calls textdomain
.
The actual catalog location is implementation-defined: for the catalog "sed"
(message catalogs installed with the Unix utility 'sed'
) in German locale, for example, the file opened by this function call may be /usr/lib/nls/msg/de_DE/sed.cat
, /usr/lib/locale/de_DE/LC_MESSAGES/sed.cat
, or /usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/sed.mo
.
Example
The following example demonstrated retrieval of messages: on a typical GNU/Linux system it reads from /usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/sed.mo
.
#include <iostream> #include <locale> int main() { std::locale loc("de_DE.utf8"); std::cout.imbue(loc); auto& facet = std::use_facet<std::messages<char>>(loc); auto cat = facet.open("sed", loc); if(cat < 0 ) std::cout << "Could not open german \"sed\" message catalog\n"; else std::cout << "\"No match\" in German: " << facet.get(cat, 0, 0, "No match") << '\n' << "\"Memory exhausted\" in German: " << facet.get(cat, 0, 0, "Memory exhausted") << '\n'; facet.close(cat); }
Output:
"No match" in German: Keine Übereinstimmung "Memory exhausted" in German: Speicher erschöpft
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