Because many different languages for many different packages have to be
stored we need some way to add these information to file message catalog
files. The way usually used in Unix environments is have this encoding
in the file name. This is also done here. The directory name given in
bindtextdomains second argument (or the default directory),
followed by the value and name of the locale and the domain name are
concatenated:
dir_name/locale/LC_category/domain_name.mo
The default value for dir_name is system specific. For the GNU library it's:
/usr/local/share/locale
locale is the value of the locale whose name is this
LC_category. For gettext and dgettext this
locale is always LC_MESSAGES. dcgettext specifies the
locale by the third argument.(2) (3)
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