#!perl -T ## no critic (TidyCode)

use strict;
use warnings;

our $VERSION = 0;

require Data::Dumper; # to visualize output only
require Locale::MO::File;

my $filename = '21_big_endian.mo';


# The content of the "messages" array reference is first sorted and then written.
# The transferred "messages" array reference remains unchanged.
# The example 23_... shows you how to handle encoding and newline.
Locale::MO::File
    ->new(
        filename      => $filename,
        is_big_endian => 1,
        messages      => [
            {
                msgid  => q{},
                # More complex header build easy using
                # module Locale::PO::Utils, method build_header_msgstr.
                msgstr => <<'EOT',
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Plural-Forms: nplurals=2; plural=n != 1;
EOT
            },
            {
                msgid  => 'original',
                msgstr => 'translated',
            },
            {
                msgctxt => 'context',
                msgid   => 'c_original',
                msgstr  => 'c_translated',
            },
            {
                msgid         => 'o_singular',
                msgid_plural  => 'o_plural',
                msgstr_plural => [ qw(t_singular t_plural) ],
            },
            {
                msgctxt       => 'c_context',
                msgid         => 'c_o_singular',
                msgid_plural  => 'c_o_plural',
                msgstr_plural => [ qw(c_t_singular c_t_plural) ],
           },
        ],
    )
    ->write_file;

my $messages_result = Locale::MO::File
    ->new(
        filename => $filename,
    )
    ->read_file
    ->get_messages;

() = print {*STDOUT} Data::Dumper ## no critic (LongChainsOfMethodCalls)
    ->new([$messages_result], [qw(messages_result)])
    ->Indent(1)
    ->Quotekeys(0)
    ->Sortkeys(1)
    ->Useperl(1)
    ->Dump;

# $Id: 12_build_header.pl 513 2010-07-29 15:16:57Z steffenw $

__END__

Output:

$messages_result = [
  {
    msgid => '',
    msgstr => 'MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Plural-Forms: nplurals=2; plural=n != 1;
'
  },
  {
    msgctxt => 'c_context',
    msgid => 'c_o_singular',
    msgid_plural => 'c_o_plural',
    msgstr_plural => [
      'c_t_singular',
      'c_t_plural'
    ]
  },
  {
    msgctxt => 'context',
    msgid => 'c_original',
    msgstr => 'c_translated'
  },
  {
    msgid => 'o_singular',
    msgid_plural => 'o_plural',
    msgstr_plural => [
      't_singular',
      't_plural'
    ]
  },
  {
    msgid => 'original',
    msgstr => 'translated'
  }
];