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   9 <h1 align=center>NGETTEXT</h1>
  10 <a href="#NAME">NAME</a><br>
  11 <a href="#SYNOPSIS">SYNOPSIS</a><br>
  12 <a href="#DESCRIPTION">DESCRIPTION</a><br>
  13 <a href="#AUTHOR">AUTHOR</a><br>
  14 <a href="#REPORTING BUGS">REPORTING BUGS</a><br>
  15 <a href="#COPYRIGHT">COPYRIGHT</a><br>
  16 <a href="#SEE ALSO">SEE ALSO</a><br>
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  21 <h2>NAME</h2>
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  26 ngettext - translate message and choose plural form</td></table>
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  28 <h2>SYNOPSIS</h2>
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  34 <b>ngettext</b> [<i>OPTION</i>] [<i>TEXTDOMAIN</i>] <i>MSGID
  35 MSGID-PLURAL COUNT</i></td></table>
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  37 <h2>DESCRIPTION</h2>
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  43 The <b>ngettext</b> program translates a natural language
  44 message into the user's language, by looking up the
  45 translation in a message catalog, and chooses the
  46 appropriate plural form, which depends on the number
  47 <i>COUNT</i> and the language of the message catalog where
  48 the translation was found.</td></table>
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  54 Display native language translation of a textual message
  55 whose grammatical form depends on a number.</td></table>
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  61 <b>-d</b>, <b>--domain</b>=<i>TEXTDOMAIN</i></td></table>
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  67 retrieve translated message from TEXTDOMAIN</td></table>
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  73 <b>-e</b></td></table>
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  79 enable expansion of some escape sequences</td></table>
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  85 <b>-E</b></td></table>
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  91 (ignored for compatibility)</td></table>
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  97 <b>-h</b>, <b>--help</b></td></table>
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 121 [TEXTDOMAIN]</td></table>
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 133 MSGID MSGID-PLURAL</td></table>
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 139 translate MSGID (singular) / MSGID-PLURAL
 140 (plural)</td></table>
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 152 choose singular/plural form based on this value</td></table>
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 158 If the TEXTDOMAIN parameter is not given, the domain is
 159 determined from the environment variable TEXTDOMAIN. If the
 160 message catalog is not found in the regular directory,
 161 another location can be specified with the environment
 162 variable TEXTDOMAINDIR. Standard search directory:
 163 @localedir@</td></table>
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 165 <h2>AUTHOR</h2>
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 171 Written by Ulrich Drepper.</td></table>
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 173 <h2>REPORTING BUGS</h2>
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 179 Report bugs to &lt;bug-gnu-gettext@gnu.org&gt;.</td></table>
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 181 <h2>COPYRIGHT</h2>
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 187 Copyright 1995-1997, 2000-2005 Free Software Foundation,
 188 Inc.<br>
 189 This is free software; see the source for copying
 190 conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for
 191 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
 192 PURPOSE.</td></table>
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 194 <h2>SEE ALSO</h2>
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 200 The full documentation for <b>ngettext</b> is maintained as
 201 a Texinfo manual. If the <b>info</b> and <b>ngettext</b>
 202 programs are properly installed at your site, the
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 209 <b>info ngettext</b></td></table>
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 215 should give you access to the complete manual.</td></table>
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