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<h1 align=center>NGETTEXT</h1>
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<p>ngettext, dngettext, dcngettext − translate message
and choose plural form</p>
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<pre><b>#include <libintl.h>
char * ngettext (const char *</b> <i>msgid</i><b>, const char *</b> <i>msgid_plural</i><b>,
unsigned long int</b> <i>n</i><b>);
char * dngettext (const char *</b> <i>domainname</i><b>,
const char *</b> <i>msgid</i><b>, const char *</b> <i>msgid_plural</i><b>,
unsigned long int</b> <i>n</i><b>);
char * dcngettext (const char *</b> <i>domainname</i><b>,
const char *</b> <i>msgid</i><b>, const char *</b> <i>msgid_plural</i><b>,
unsigned long int</b> <i>n</i><b>, int</b> <i>category</i><b>);
</b></pre>
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<p>The <b>ngettext</b>, <b>dngettext</b> and
<b>dcngettext</b> 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
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<p>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
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<p>The <b>ngettext</b>, <b>dngettext</b> and
<b>dcngettext</b> functions work like the <b>gettext</b>,
<b>dgettext</b> and <b>dcgettext</b> functions,
respectively. Additionally, they choose the appropriate
plural form, which depends on the number <i>n</i> and the
language of the message catalog where the translation was
found.</p>
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<p>In the "C" locale, or if none of the used
catalogs contain a translation for <i>msgid</i>, the
<b>ngettext</b>, <b>dngettext</b> and <b>dcngettext</b>
functions return <i>msgid</i> if <i>n</i> == 1, or
<i>msgid_plural</i> if <i>n</i> != 1.</p>
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<p>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 <i>msgid</i> or <i>msgid_plural</i> is returned,
as described above.</p>
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<p><b>errno</b> is not modified.</p>
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<p>The return type ought to be <b>const char *</b>, but is
<b>char *</b> to avoid warnings in C code predating ANSI
C.</p>
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<p><b>gettext</b>(3), <b>dgettext</b>(3),
<b>dcgettext</b>(3)</p>
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