# `Ash.Gettext`
[🔗](https://github.com/ash-project/ash/blob/v3.24.3/lib/ash/gettext.ex#L5)

Provides the `error_message/1` macro for marking translatable error message strings.

At runtime, `error_message("must be present")` simply returns the string as-is.
The macro serves as a marker so that `mix ash.gettext.extract` can scan source files
and extract all error message strings into a `.pot` file for translation.

## Usage

    import Ash.Gettext

    message: error_message("must equal %{value}")

This is automatically imported by `use Ash.Resource.Validation`.

# `error_message`
*macro* 

Marks a string as a translatable error message.

Returns the string unchanged at runtime. Used by `mix ash.gettext.extract`
to extract messages for gettext `.pot` file generation.

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*Consult [api-reference.md](api-reference.md) for complete listing*