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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 lan-
     guages 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 appropri-
     ate plural form is converted to the locale's codeset and returned. The  re-
     sulting  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)

GNU gettext 1.0 		    May 2001			     NGETTEXT(3)

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