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NAME¶
ngettext - translate message and choose plural form
SYNOPSIS¶
ngettext [OPTION] [TEXTDOMAIN] MSGID MSGID-PLURAL COUNT
DESCRIPTION¶
The ngettext 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 COUNT and the language of the message catalog where the translation was found.
Display native language translation of a textual message whose grammatical form depends on a number.
- -d, --domain=TEXTDOMAIN
- retrieve translated message from TEXTDOMAIN
- -c, --context=CONTEXT
- specify context for MSGID
- -e
- enable expansion of some escape sequences
- -E
- (ignored for compatibility)
- [TEXTDOMAIN]
- retrieve translated message from TEXTDOMAIN
- MSGID MSGID-PLURAL
- translate MSGID (singular) / MSGID-PLURAL (plural)
- COUNT
- choose singular/plural form based on this value
Informative output:¶
- -h, --help
- display this help and exit
- -V, --version
- display version information and exit
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
AUTHOR¶
Written by Ulrich Drepper.
REPORTING BUGS¶
Report bugs in the bug tracker at <https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/gettext> or by email to <bug-gettext@gnu.org>.
COPYRIGHT¶
Copyright © 1995-1997, 2000-2023 Free Software Foundation,
Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later
<https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO
WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
SEE ALSO¶
The full documentation for ngettext is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and ngettext programs are properly installed at your site, the command
- info ngettext
should give you access to the complete manual.
February 2024 | GNU gettext-runtime 0.22.5 |