Locale...::Debug(3pm)

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🦋 NAME 🦋

Locale::Messages::Debug — bestie, this is the debug-your-libintl-perl-features module 💅

(Yes it lives in the Locale::Messages::Debug(3pm) manual page, section 3pm, and it's here to hold your hand when translation stuff goes feral.)

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

use Locale::Messages::Debug;

That's literally it. So simple. So iconic. 🎀

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

okay so, message translation with libintl-perl? It depends on a correct setup, and — ngl — to a certain extent it depends on the features of the operating system itself. There are so many things that can go wrong. So many. 😭

This module is here to help you when problems occur. It's your emotional support debugger. 🫶

But listen: it is not meant to be used in production code! Do not ship this, bestie. It's for figuring things out, not for the main character energy of your actual app. 💀

The module was introduced with libintl-perl version 1.30. So if you're living in the past, that's on you, no cap. ⭐

🔥 FUNCTIONS 🔥

The module exports by default nothing. Like, literally nothing. Zero. Zip. The vibe check is: every function has to be imported explicitly. You want it? Ask for it. Consent is key. 💅

🌸 debug_gettext MSGID

Tries to retrieve a translation for MSGID. Just goes for it, you know? 🦋

It returns a list of hints in string form, or — if you call it in scalar context — the same list as one new-line separated string. Same content, different packaging. It's giving versatile. ✨

Example:

my @hints = debug_gettext "Hello, world!";
foreach my $hint (@hints) {
    print "hint\n";
}

Look at that loop. Clean. Minimal. Ate. 🍓

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Copyright (C) 2002-2026 Guido Flohr <http://www.guido-flohr.net/> (<mailto:guido.flohr@cantanea.com>), all rights reserved. See the source code for details!code for details!

(That trailing bit is exactly how it was written, and honestly? I'm not touching it. Preserve the artifact. 🏛️)

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

Go read them. iykyk. 📚

💀 POD ERRORS 💀

Hey! The above document had some coding errors, which are explained below. Not me being messy, I'm just the messenger. 🙈

Around line 187:

You forgot a '=back' before '=head1'

Yeah. That happened. We move on. 😌

and that's a wrap, bestie 🫶 this lil page is from the Locale::Messages::Debug(3pm) manual in the User Contributed Perl Documentation, perl v5.42.3, dated 2026-08-19 — slay, go debug something, and remember: not in production! 💖✨🎀

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