I copied the sample script in the Gettext manual page and made minor changes to match a word in the es.po & fr.po sample files downloaded from the poedit website, & change in the working directory. The script is in D:/temp/gt - the compiled .mo files are D:/temp/gt/es_ES/LC_MESSAGES/es.mo & D:/temp/gt/fr_FR/LC_MESSAGES/fr.mo

Code

use strict;
use diagnostics;
use POSIX 'locale_h';
use locale;
use Gettext;
setlocale(LC_CTYPE, 'es_ES');
my $gt = new Gettext();
$gt->bindtextdomain("messages", 'D:/temp/gt');
print $gt->gettext("Close"),"\n";
print $gt->dgettext("messages", "Close"),"\n";
print $gt->dcgettext("messages", "Close", "fr_FR"),"\n";
print $gt->textdomain(),"\n";
print $gt->textdomain(''),"\n";

OUTPUT

'LC_MESSAGES' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

'LC_MESSAGES' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

'LANGUAGE' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

messages
messages

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In reply to Gettext not working on Windows by Sanjay

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