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diff --git a/Doc/lib/libgettext.tex b/Doc/lib/libgettext.tex index 8bd56f7..aaacd80 100644 --- a/Doc/lib/libgettext.tex +++ b/Doc/lib/libgettext.tex @@ -98,9 +98,9 @@ namespace as the function \function{_()}. \begin{funcdesc}{find}{domain\optional{, localedir\optional{, languages}}} This function implements the standard \file{.mo} file search algorithm. It takes a \var{domain}, identical to what -\function{textdomain()} takes, and optionally a \var{localedir} (as in -\function{bindtextdomain()}), and a list of languages. All arguments -are strings. +\function{textdomain()} takes. Optional \var{localedir} is as in +\function{bindtextdomain()} Optional \var{languages} is a list of +strings, where each string is a language code. If \var{localedir} is not given, then the default system locale directory is used.\footnote{See the footnote for @@ -108,8 +108,9 @@ directory is used.\footnote{See the footnote for then the following environment variables are searched: \envvar{LANGUAGE}, \envvar{LC_ALL}, \envvar{LC_MESSAGES}, and \envvar{LANG}. The first one returning a non-empty value is used for the \var{languages} variable. -The environment variables can contain a colon separated list of -languages, which will be split. +The environment variables should contain a colon separated list of +languages, which will be split on the colon to produce the expected +list of language code strings. \function{find()} then expands and normalizes the languages, and then iterates through them, searching for an existing file built of these |