I'm trying to localize a module. I'm using Locale::TextDomain and Dist::Zilla::LocalTextDomain to manage it.

The module is available at https://github.com/mla/time-ago

I've added a French translation but I can't seem to trigger the translation.

I'm following this tutorial: http://perladvent.org/2013/2013-12-09.html

Compiling of the .po files seems to work fine:

$ dzil msg-compile po/fr.po
[LocaleTextDomain] po/fr.po: 9 translated messages, 2 untranslated mes
+sages.

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But then I try to test it using the example from the tutorial, and I get English:

$ LANGUAGE=fr perl -Ilib -CAS -I. ./try     
about 3 hours

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Here's the script:

#!/usr/bin/env perl

use strict;
use Time::Ago;

print Time::Ago->in_words(3600 * 3.2), "\n";

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Here's the .po translation that should apply there:

#: lib/Time/Ago.pm:47
#, perl-brace-format
msgid "about {count} hour"
msgid_plural "about {count} hours"
msgstr[0] "environ une heure"
msgstr[1] "environ {count} heures"

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What am I missing?

In reply to getting Locale::TextDomain working by mla12

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