x11r4 man page for ngettext

NGETTEXT(1)								GNU							       NGETTEXT(1)

NAME
       ngettext - translate message and choose plural form

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

DESCRIPTION
       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/local/share/locale

AUTHOR
       Written by Ulrich Drepper.

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

COPYRIGHT
       Copyright   (C)	 1995-1997,   2000-2007   Free	 Software   Foundation,   Inc.	  License   GPLv3+:   GNU   GPL   version   3	or   later
       <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
       This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.  There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

SEE ALSO
       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.

GNU gettext-runtime 0.17					   November 2007						       NGETTEXT(1)