_("string") in code

[Soyweiser]

Question, why do we have _("string") in the code. I have no idea what that is supposed to do. And I would think "string" works just as well.

[BevapDin]

This is for the translation. _ is actually a macro to some gettext function which returns the translated string (based on the current locale at runtime). Google gettext and i18n.

[Soyweiser]

Thanks a lot. did I miss some documentation about this?

[Sheco]

It is common knowledge when dealing with i18n

[Soyweiser]

I had no idea.

[Sheco]

Google gettext

[Soyweiser]

I have :D

[kevingranade]

It's a macro that expands to the function "gettext()". This is a function
that both allows extracting strings into a table for translation, and if
running in localized mode does a string lookup and substitutes the
translated version.
Normally something sup

Question, why do we have _("string") in the code. I have no idea what that
is supposed to do. And I would think "string" works just as well.

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