From oleonard@myacpl.org Fri Jul 10 01:23:01 2026
From: Owen Leonard <oleonard@myacpl.org>
To: koha-devel@lists.koha-community.org
Subject: [Koha-devel] dummy function for gettext?
Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2007 05:27:27 -0400
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I'm curious about something in the 3.0 templates:

<script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript">
    function _(s) { return s } // dummy function for gettext
    </script>

Can anyone tell me what purpose that serves?

Thanks,

  Owen

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From paul.poulain@free.fr Fri Jul 10 01:23:01 2026
From: Paul POULAIN <paul.poulain@free.fr>
To: koha-devel@lists.koha-community.org
Subject: Re: [Koha-devel] dummy function for gettext [IMPORTANT]
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 09:38:12 +0200
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Owen Leonard a écrit :
> I'm curious about something in the 3.0 templates:
> 
> <script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript">
>     function _(s) { return s } // dummy function for gettext
>     </script>
> 
> Can anyone tell me what purpose that serves?

Yes, I can, and it's very important to keep it here.
every string that is _('this is a string') is extracted by the template 
translator tool.
Without this, it is not.

So the dummy function is useless when running Koha, but very very 
important for translation process.

HTH

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