Locale::maketext::simple is a simple wrapper around locale::maketext::lexicon, designed to alleviate the need of creating language classes for module authors.

the language used is chosen from the loc_lang call. if a lookup is not possible, the i-default language will be used. if the lookup is not in the i-default language, then the key will be returned.

if locale::maketext::lexicon is not present, it implements a minimal localization function by simply interpolating [_1] with the first argument, [_2] with the second, etc. interpolated function like [quant,_1] are treated as [_1], with the sole exception of [tense,_1,x], which will append ing to _1 when x is present, or appending ed to <_1> otherwise.

please note that locale::maketext::simple is also in perl core. you need to install this package only if you need a newer version than what currently is in perl-modules.