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Manual Reference Pages  - NGETTEXT (1)

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ngettext - translate message and choose plural form

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ngettext [OPTION] [TEXTDOMAIN] MSGID MSGID-PLURAL COUNT

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

Written by Ulrich Drepper.

Report bugs to <bug-gnu-gettext@gnu.org>.

Copyright © 1995-1997, 2000-2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

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.

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