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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 0.19.3 May 2001 NGETTEXT(3)
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