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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="#RETURN VALUE">RETURN VALUE</a><br> <a href="#ERRORS">ERRORS</a><br> <a href="#BUGS">BUGS</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, dngettext, dcngettext − translate message and choose plural form</p> <h2>SYNOPSIS <a name="SYNOPSIS"></a> </h2> <p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em"><b>#include <libintl.h></b></p> <p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em"><b>char * ngettext (const char *</b> <i>msgid</i><b>, const char *</b> <i>msgid_plural</i><b>, <br> unsigned long int</b> <i>n</i><b>); <br> char * dngettext (const char *</b> <i>domainname</i><b>, <br> const char *</b> <i>msgid</i><b>, const char *</b> <i>msgid_plural</i><b>, <br> unsigned long int</b> <i>n</i><b>); <br> char * dcngettext (const char *</b> <i>domainname</i><b>, <br> const char *</b> <i>msgid</i><b>, const char *</b> <i>msgid_plural</i><b>, <br> unsigned long int</b> <i>n</i><b>, int</b> <i>category</i><b>);</b></p> <h2>DESCRIPTION <a name="DESCRIPTION"></a> </h2> <p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">The <b>ngettext</b>, <b>dngettext</b> and <b>dcngettext</b> functions attempt to translate a text string into the user’s native language, by looking up the appropriate plural form of the translation in a message catalog.</p> <p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">Plural forms are grammatical variants depending on the a number. Some languages have two forms, called singular and plural. Other languages have three forms, called singular, dual and plural. There are also languages with four forms.</p> <p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">The <b>ngettext</b>, <b>dngettext</b> and <b>dcngettext</b> functions work like the <b>gettext</b>, <b>dgettext</b> and <b>dcgettext</b> functions, respectively. Additionally, they choose the appropriate plural form, which depends on the number <i>n</i> and the language of the message catalog where the translation was found.</p> <p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">In the "C" locale, or if none of the used catalogs contain a translation for <i>msgid</i>, the <b>ngettext</b>, <b>dngettext</b> and <b>dcngettext</b> functions return <i>msgid</i> if <i>n</i> == 1, or <i>msgid_plural</i> if <i>n</i> != 1.</p> <h2>RETURN VALUE <a name="RETURN VALUE"></a> </h2> <p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">If a translation was found in one of the specified catalogs, the appropriate plural form is converted to the locale’s codeset and returned. The resulting string is statically allocated and must not be modified or freed. Otherwise <i>msgid</i> or <i>msgid_plural</i> is returned, as described above.</p> <h2>ERRORS <a name="ERRORS"></a> </h2> <p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em"><b>errno</b> is not modified.</p> <h2>BUGS <a name="BUGS"></a> </h2> <p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">The return type ought to be <b>const char *</b>, but is <b>char *</b> to avoid warnings in C code predating ANSI C.</p> <h2>SEE ALSO <a name="SEE ALSO"></a> </h2> <p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em"><b>gettext</b>(3), <b>dgettext</b>(3), <b>dcgettext</b>(3)</p> <hr> </body> </html>