App::rdapper::l10n(3)

✨ NAME ✨

App::rdapper::l10n — it's the internationalisation (l10n, bestie, not the other one) support package for App::rdapper. 💖

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

okay so the rdapper RDAP client is lowkey a polyglot 💅 — it can spit out output that's localised to whatever locale the user is running. The way it does that is with Locale::Maketext::Gettext plus a whole dictionary of translated strings living in .po files. no cap, that's the whole vibe.

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🎀 TRANSLATING STRINGS 🎀

so rdapper has an undocumented command line option called --strings, and what it does is make the program print a .pot template straight to STDOUT. that's literally how the rdapper.pot file in the locale directory gets made. 👑

that locale directory is giving main character energy — it holds a subdirectory for every supported locale. wanna add a brand new locale? just make a new subdirectory and copy rdapper.pot into it, like this:

$ mkdir -p ja/LC_MESSAGES
$ cp rdapper.pot ja/LC_MESSAGES/rdapper.po

once you've finished editing rdapper.po, run mkmo.sh to compile the .po files into .mo files. 🦋 those .mo files get installed automatically when rdapper is installed, so you don't gotta do anything extra, periodt.

you'll also need to edit the file l10.pm to add a new package. and it has to look exactly like this, no improvising:

package App::rdapper::l10n::ja;
use base qw(Locale::Maketext::Gettext);
1;

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🫶 CONTRIBUTING TRANSLATIONS 🫶

translations are gratefully accepted 🥹✨ fr fr, we want them. to contribute one:

1. fork the repository <https://github.com/gbxyz/rdapper/fork>
2. make your edits
3. submit a pull request <https://github.com/gbxyz/rdapper/compare>

that's it, that's the whole thing. go be iconic. 💜

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friendly reminder bestie: --strings is undocumented, so don't go treating it like a promise. 🙈

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and that's the page!! 💖✨ this one's from perl v5.42.3, dated 2026-10-02, and it's the user contributed perl documentation for App::rdapper::l10n(3). slay, go translate something. 🎀🦋🌸