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<!-- Creator : groff version 1.22.3 --> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <html> <head> <meta name="generator" content="groff -Thtml, see www.gnu.org"> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=US-ASCII"> <meta name="Content-Style" content="text/css"> <style type="text/css"> p { margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; vertical-align: top } pre { margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; vertical-align: top } table { margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; vertical-align: top } h1 { text-align: center } </style> <title>NGETTEXT</title> </head> <body> <h1 align="center">NGETTEXT</h1> <a href="#NAME">NAME</a><br> <a href="#SYNOPSIS">SYNOPSIS</a><br> <a href="#DESCRIPTION">DESCRIPTION</a><br> <a href="#AUTHOR">AUTHOR</a><br> <a href="#REPORTING BUGS">REPORTING BUGS</a><br> <a href="#COPYRIGHT">COPYRIGHT</a><br> <a href="#SEE ALSO">SEE ALSO</a><br> <hr> <h2>NAME <a name="NAME"></a> </h2> <p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">ngettext − translate message and choose plural form</p> <h2>SYNOPSIS <a name="SYNOPSIS"></a> </h2> <p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em"><b>ngettext</b> [<i>OPTION</i>] [<i>TEXTDOMAIN</i>] <i>MSGID MSGID-PLURAL COUNT</i></p> <h2>DESCRIPTION <a name="DESCRIPTION"></a> </h2> <p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">The <b>ngettext</b> program translates a natural language message into the user’s language, by looking up the translation in a message catalog, and chooses the appropriate plural form, which depends on the number <i>COUNT</i> and the language of the message catalog where the translation was found.</p> <p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">Display native language translation of a textual message whose grammatical form depends on a number. <b><br> −d</b>, <b>−−domain</b>=<i>TEXTDOMAIN</i></p> <p style="margin-left:22%;">retrieve translated message from TEXTDOMAIN</p> <table width="100%" border="0" rules="none" frame="void" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr valign="top" align="left"> <td width="11%"></td> <td width="3%"> <p><b>−e</b></p></td> <td width="8%"></td> <td width="63%"> <p>enable expansion of some escape sequences</p></td> <td width="15%"> </td></tr> <tr valign="top" align="left"> <td width="11%"></td> <td width="3%"> <p><b>−E</b></p></td> <td width="8%"></td> <td width="63%"> <p>(ignored for compatibility)</p></td> <td width="15%"> </td></tr> </table> <p style="margin-left:11%;"><b>−h</b>, <b>−−help</b></p> <p style="margin-left:22%;">display this help and exit</p> <p style="margin-left:11%;"><b>−V</b>, <b>−−version</b></p> <p style="margin-left:22%;">display version information and exit</p> <p style="margin-left:11%;">[TEXTDOMAIN]</p> <p style="margin-left:22%;">retrieve translated message from TEXTDOMAIN</p> <p style="margin-left:11%;">MSGID MSGID-PLURAL</p> <p style="margin-left:22%;">translate MSGID (singular) / MSGID-PLURAL (plural)</p> <table width="100%" border="0" rules="none" frame="void" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr valign="top" align="left"> <td width="11%"></td> <td width="7%"> <p>COUNT</p></td> <td width="4%"></td> <td width="72%"> <p>choose singular/plural form based on this value</p></td> <td width="6%"> </td></tr> </table> <p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">If the TEXTDOMAIN parameter is not given, the domain is determined from the environment variable TEXTDOMAIN. If the message catalog is not found in the regular directory, another location can be specified with the environment variable TEXTDOMAINDIR. Standard search directory: /usr/share/locale</p> <h2>AUTHOR <a name="AUTHOR"></a> </h2> <p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">Written by Ulrich Drepper.</p> <h2>REPORTING BUGS <a name="REPORTING BUGS"></a> </h2> <p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">Report bugs to <bug-gnu-gettext@gnu.org>.</p> <h2>COPYRIGHT <a name="COPYRIGHT"></a> </h2> <p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">Copyright © 1995-1997, 2000-2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html> <br> This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.</p> <h2>SEE ALSO <a name="SEE ALSO"></a> </h2> <p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">The full documentation for <b>ngettext</b> is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the <b>info</b> and <b>ngettext</b> programs are properly installed at your site, the command</p> <p style="margin-left:22%; margin-top: 1em"><b>info ngettext</b></p> <p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">should give you access to the complete manual.</p> <hr> </body> </html>