NGETTEXT(1)
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
- -e enable expansion of some escape sequences
- -E (ignored for compatibility)
- -h, --help
- display this help and exit
- -V, --version
- display version information and exit
- [TEXTDOMAIN]
- retrieve translated message from TEXTDOMAIN
- MSGID MSGID-PLURAL
- translate MSGID (singular) / MSGID-PLURAL (plural)
- COUNT choose singular/plural form based on this value
- 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 to <bug-gnu-gettext@gnu.org>.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 1995-1997, 2000-2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later
<http://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.