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  10 <h1 align=center>NGETTEXT</h1>
  11 <a href="#NAME">NAME</a><br>
  12 <a href="#SYNOPSIS">SYNOPSIS</a><br>
  13 <a href="#DESCRIPTION">DESCRIPTION</a><br>
  14 <a href="#AUTHOR">AUTHOR</a><br>
  15 <a href="#REPORTING BUGS">REPORTING BUGS</a><br>
  16 <a href="#COPYRIGHT">COPYRIGHT</a><br>
  17 <a href="#SEE ALSO">SEE ALSO</a><br>
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  20 <a name="NAME"></a>
  21 <h2>NAME</h2>
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  28 <p>ngettext &minus; translate message and choose plural
  29 form</p>
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  33 <h2>SYNOPSIS</h2>
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  40 <p><b>ngettext</b> [<i>OPTION</i>] [<i>TEXTDOMAIN</i>]
  41 <i>MSGID MSGID-PLURAL COUNT</i></p>
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  44 <a name="DESCRIPTION"></a>
  45 <h2>DESCRIPTION</h2>
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  52 <p>The <b>ngettext</b> program translates a natural language
  53 message into the user&rsquo;s language, by looking up the
  54 translation in a message catalog, and chooses the
  55 appropriate plural form, which depends on the number
  56 <i>COUNT</i> and the language of the message catalog where
  57 the translation was found.</p>
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  59 <p>Display native language translation of a textual message
  60 whose grammatical form depends on a number.</p>
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  69 <p><b>&minus;d</b>,
  70 <b>&minus;&minus;domain</b>=<i>TEXTDOMAIN</i></p></td>
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  78 <p>retrieve translated message from TEXTDOMAIN</p>
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  88 <p><b>&minus;e</b></p>
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  92
  93 <p>enable expansion of some escape sequences</p>
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 101 <p><b>&minus;E</b></p>
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 105
 106 <p>(ignored for compatibility)</p>
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 117 <p><b>&minus;h</b>, <b>&minus;&minus;help</b></p></td>
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 125 <p>display this help and exit</p>
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 134 <p><b>&minus;V</b>, <b>&minus;&minus;version</b></p></td>
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 142 <p>display version information and exit</p>
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 151 <p>[TEXTDOMAIN]</p></td>
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 159 <p>retrieve translated message from TEXTDOMAIN</p>
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 168 <p>MSGID MSGID-PLURAL</p></td>
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 176 <p>translate MSGID (singular) / MSGID-PLURAL (plural)</p>
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 186 <p>COUNT</p>
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 191 <p>choose singular/plural form based on this value</p>
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 200 <p>If the TEXTDOMAIN parameter is not given, the domain is
 201 determined from the environment variable TEXTDOMAIN. If the
 202 message catalog is not found in the regular directory,
 203 another location can be specified with the environment
 204 variable TEXTDOMAINDIR. Standard search directory:
 205 /mingw/share/locale</p>
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 208 <a name="AUTHOR"></a>
 209 <h2>AUTHOR</h2>
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 216 <p>Written by Ulrich Drepper.</p>
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 220 <h2>REPORTING BUGS</h2>
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 227 <p>Report bugs to &lt;bug-gnu-gettext@gnu.org&gt;.</p>
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 238 <p>Copyright &copy; 1995-1997, 2000-2007 Free Software
 239 Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later
 240 &lt;http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html&gt;<br>
 241 This is free software: you are free to change and
 242 redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent
 243 permitted by law.</p>
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 246 <a name="SEE ALSO"></a>
 247 <h2>SEE ALSO</h2>
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 254 <p>The full documentation for <b>ngettext</b> is maintained
 255 as a Texinfo manual. If the <b>info</b> and <b>ngettext</b>
 256 programs are properly installed at your site, the
 257 command</p>
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 266 <p><b>info ngettext</b></p>
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 275 <p>should give you access to the complete manual.</p>
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