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NGETTEXT
NGETTEXT
NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
RETURN VALUE
ERRORS
BUGS
SEE ALSO
NAME
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ngettext, dngettext, dcngettext - translate message and choose plural form |
SYNOPSIS
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#include <libintl.h>
char * ngettext (const char * msgid, const char * msgid_plural,
unsigned long int n);
char * dngettext (const char * domainname,
const char * msgid, const char * msgid_plural,
unsigned long int n);
char * dcngettext (const char * domainname,
const char * msgid, const char * msgid_plural,
unsigned long int n, int category);
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DESCRIPTION
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The ngettext, dngettext and dcngettext
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. |
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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. |
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The ngettext, dngettext and dcngettext
functions work like the gettext, dgettext and
dcgettext functions, respectively. Additionally, they
choose the appropriate plural form, which depends on the
number n and the language of the message catalog
where the translation was found. |
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In the "C" locale, or if none of the used catalogs
contain a translation for msgid, the ngettext,
dngettext and dcngettext functions return
msgid if n == 1, or msgid_plural if
n != 1. |
RETURN VALUE
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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
msgid or msgid_plural is returned, as
described above. |
ERRORS
BUGS
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The return type ought to be const char *, but is
char * to avoid warnings in C code predating ANSI
C. |
SEE ALSO
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gettext(3), dgettext(3),
dcgettext(3) |
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