Description:

It is a common feature of applications (whether run directly, or via
the Web) for them to be "localized" -- i.e., for them to a present
an English interface to an English-speaker, a German interface to
a German-speaker, and so on for all languages it's programmed with.
Locale::Maketext is a framework for software localization; it provides
you with the tools for organizing and accessing the bits of text and
text-processing code that you need for producing localized applications.
In order to make sense of Maketext and how all its components fit together,
you should probably go read Locale::Maketext::TPJ13, and then read the
following documentation.
You may also want to read over the source for File::Findgrep and its
constituent modules -- they are a complete (if small) example application
that uses Maketext.