| .\" DO NOT MODIFY THIS FILE! It was generated by help2man 1.24. |
| .TH NGETTEXT "1" "July 2014" "GNU gettext-runtime 0.19.2" GNU |
| .SH NAME |
| ngettext \- translate message and choose plural form |
| .SH SYNOPSIS |
| .B ngettext |
| [\fIOPTION\fR] [\fITEXTDOMAIN\fR] \fIMSGID MSGID-PLURAL COUNT\fR |
| .SH DESCRIPTION |
| .\" Add any additional description here |
| The \fBngettext\fP 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 \fICOUNT\fP |
| and the language of the message catalog where the translation was found. |
| .PP |
| Display native language translation of a textual message whose grammatical |
| form depends on a number. |
| .TP |
| \fB\-d\fR, \fB\-\-domain\fR=\fITEXTDOMAIN\fR |
| retrieve translated message from TEXTDOMAIN |
| .TP |
| \fB\-e\fR |
| enable expansion of some escape sequences |
| .TP |
| \fB\-E\fR |
| (ignored for compatibility) |
| .TP |
| \fB\-h\fR, \fB\-\-help\fR |
| display this help and exit |
| .TP |
| \fB\-V\fR, \fB\-\-version\fR |
| display version information and exit |
| .TP |
| [TEXTDOMAIN] |
| retrieve translated message from TEXTDOMAIN |
| .TP |
| MSGID MSGID-PLURAL |
| translate MSGID (singular) / MSGID-PLURAL (plural) |
| .TP |
| COUNT |
| choose singular/plural form based on this value |
| .PP |
| 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 |
| .SH AUTHOR |
| Written by Ulrich Drepper. |
| .SH "REPORTING BUGS" |
| Report bugs to <bug-gnu-gettext@gnu.org>. |
| .SH COPYRIGHT |
| Copyright \(co 1995-1997, 2000-2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc. |
| License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html> |
| .br |
| This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. |
| There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. |
| .SH "SEE ALSO" |
| The full documentation for |
| .B ngettext |
| is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the |
| .B info |
| and |
| .B ngettext |
| programs are properly installed at your site, the command |
| .IP |
| .B info ngettext |
| .PP |
| should give you access to the complete manual. |
