gettext: ngettext Invocation

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1 15.5.2.4 Invoking the ‘ngettext’ program
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1      ngettext [OPTION] [TEXTDOMAIN] MSGID MSGID-PLURAL COUNT
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1    The ‘ngettext’ program displays the native language translation of a
1 textual message whose grammatical form depends on a number.
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1 *Arguments*
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1 ‘-d TEXTDOMAIN’
1 ‘--domain=TEXTDOMAIN’
1      Retrieve translated messages from TEXTDOMAIN.  Usually a TEXTDOMAIN
1      corresponds to a package, a program, or a module of a program.
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1 ‘-e’
1      Enable expansion of some escape sequences.  This option is for
1      compatibility with the ‘gettext’ program.  The escape sequences
1      ‘\a’, ‘\b’, ‘\c’, ‘\f’, ‘\n’, ‘\r’, ‘\t’, ‘\v’, ‘\\’, and ‘\’
1      followed by one to three octal digits, are interpreted like the
1      System V ‘echo’ program did.
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1 ‘-E’
1      This option is only for compatibility with the ‘gettext’ program.
1      It has no effect.
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1 ‘-h’
1 ‘--help’
1      Display this help and exit.
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1 ‘-V’
1 ‘--version’
1      Output version information and exit.
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1 ‘TEXTDOMAIN’
1      Retrieve translated message from TEXTDOMAIN.
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1 ‘MSGID MSGID-PLURAL’
1      Translate MSGID (English singular) / MSGID-PLURAL (English plural).
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1 ‘COUNT’
1      Choose singular/plural form based on this value.
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1    If the TEXTDOMAIN parameter is not given, the domain is determined
1 from the environment variable ‘TEXTDOMAIN’.  If the message catalog is
1 not found in the regular directory, another location can be specified
1 with the environment variable ‘TEXTDOMAINDIR’.
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1    Note: ‘xgettext’ supports only the three-arguments form of the
1 ‘ngettext’ invocation, where no options are present and the TEXTDOMAIN
1 is implicit, from the environment.
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