No, the _() function is the standard gettext() alias.  See
http://php.net/gettext

-Rasmus

On Tue, 28 May 2002, John Holmes wrote:

> > What exactly does the underscore in _("Select your preferred
> language:")
> > mean?
>
> It doesn't do anything. It's just a naming convention the author chose
> to use. Usually when you name a function like that, it's meant to be
> "private" or shouldn't be called directly. Other functions will use it,
> but you shouldn't use it directly in your code. Of course, nothing is
> stopping you from doing that though...
>
> ---John Holmes...
>
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