NGETTEXT

Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: July 2020
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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, 2000-2020 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.