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6.28.3.5 <tt class=
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In Python
2.4 the
<tt class=
"function">lgettext()
</tt> family of functions were
introduced. The intention of these functions is to provide an
alternative which is more compliant with the current
implementation of GNU gettext. Unlike
<tt class=
"function">gettext()
</tt>, which
returns strings encoded with the same codeset used in the
translation file,
<tt class=
"function">lgettext()
</tt> will return strings
encoded with the preferred system encoding, as returned by
<tt class=
"function">locale.getpreferredencoding()
</tt>. Also notice that
Python
2.4 introduces new functions to explicitly choose
the codeset used in translated strings. If a codeset is explicitly
set, even
<tt class=
"function">lgettext()
</tt> will return translated strings in
the requested codeset, as would be expected in the GNU gettext
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