Re: [FWP] Fun with Die

[Michael G Schwern <schwern@pobox.com>]

On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 03:30:13PM +0100, Julien Quint wrote:
> I am writing a small localization module that can "localize" a
> filehandle, by tying a filehandle to a Localizer class that has a
> "phrasebook" to translate chunks of text. It is used like this:

FYI Have you had a look at Locale::gettext and Locale::Maketext?

Smells like you're creating a modern gettext, something that uses a
sane format.  Maketext is pretty sophisticated and may be overkill.


> problem: how to localize messages sent by "die" and "warn"? Even though they 
> write to STDERR, they do not seem to use the PRINT method, so their messages 
> are not caught. I'm wondering how that can be done.

  $SIG{__WARN__} = sub { warn localize @_; };
  $SIG{__DIE__}  = sub { die localize @_; };

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