| <!-- Creator : groff version 1.22.2 --> |
| <!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> |
