NGETTEXT
#NAME
NAME
#SYNOPSIS
SYNOPSIS
#DESCRIPTION
DESCRIPTION
#RETURN VALUE
RETURN VALUE
#ERRORS
ERRORS
#BUGS
BUGS
#SEE ALSO
SEE ALSO
NAME
ngettext, dngettext, dcngettext - translate message and choose plural form
SYNOPSIS
#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
);
DESCRIPTION
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.
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.
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.
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
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
errno
is not modified.
BUGS
The return type ought to be
const char *
, but is
char *
to avoid warnings in C code predating ANSI
C.
SEE ALSO
gettext
(3),
dgettext
(3),
dcgettext
(3)
