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NGETTEXT(3)                          Library Functions Manual                         NGETTEXT(3)



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 transla-
       tion 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 pre-
       dating ANSI C.

SEE ALSO
       gettext(3), dgettext(3), dcgettext(3)



GNU gettext 0.19.8.1                         May 2001                                 NGETTEXT(3)

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