dcngettext

NGETTEXT(3)							  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 get-
       text, 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 transla-
       tion 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 warn-
       ings in C code predating ANSI C.

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



GNU gettext 0.14.1		   May 2001			  NGETTEXT(3)