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<productname>gettext</productname>
<productnumber>&gettext-version;</productnumber>
<address>&gettext-url;</address>
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<title>Gettext-&gettext-version;</title>
<indexterm zone="ch-system-gettext">
<primary sortas="a-Gettext">Gettext</primary>
</indexterm>
<sect2 role="package">
<title/>
<para>The Gettext package contains utilities for internationalization and
localization. These allow programs to be compiled with NLS (Native Language
Support), enabling them to output messages in the user's native
language.</para>
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<segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
<segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle>
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<seg>&gettext-ch6-sbu;</seg>
<seg>&gettext-ch6-du;</seg>
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<sect2 role="installation">
<title>Installation of Gettext</title>
<para>Prepare Gettext for compilation:</para>
<screen><userinput remap="configure">./configure --prefix=/usr \
--docdir=/usr/share/doc/gettext-&gettext-version;</userinput></screen>
<para>Compile the package:</para>
<screen><userinput remap="make">make</userinput></screen>
<para>To test the results (this takes a long time, around 3 SBUs),
issue:</para>
<screen><userinput remap="test">make check</userinput></screen>
<para>Install the package:</para>
<screen><userinput remap="install">make install</userinput></screen>
</sect2>
<sect2 id="contents-gettext" role="content">
<title>Contents of Gettext</title>
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<segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
<segtitle>Installed libraries</segtitle>
<seglistitem>
<seg>autopoint, config.charset, config.rpath, envsubst, gettext, gettext.sh,
gettextize, hostname, msgattrib, msgcat, msgcmp, msgcomm, msgconv, msgen,
msgexec, msgfilter, msgfmt, msggrep, msginit, msgmerge, msgunfmt, msguniq,
ngettext, recode-sr-latin, and xgettext</seg>
<seg>libasprintf.{a,so}, libgettextlib.so, libgettextpo.{a,so},
libgettextsrc.so, and preloadable_libintl.so</seg>
</seglistitem>
</segmentedlist>
<variablelist>
<bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
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<varlistentry id="autopoint">
<term><command>autopoint</command></term>
<listitem>
<para>Copies standard Gettext infrastructure files into a source
package</para>
<indexterm zone="ch-system-gettext autopoint">
<primary sortas="b-autopoint">autopoint</primary>
</indexterm>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry id="config.charset">
<term><command>config.charset</command></term>
<listitem>
<para>Outputs a system-dependent table of character encoding
aliases</para>
<indexterm zone="ch-system-gettext config.charset">
<primary sortas="b-config.charset">config.charset</primary>
</indexterm>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry id="config.rpath">
<term><command>config.rpath</command></term>
<listitem>
<para>Outputs a system-dependent set of variables, describing how
to set the runtime search path of shared libraries in an
executable</para>
<indexterm zone="ch-system-gettext config.rpath">
<primary sortas="b-config.rpath">config.rpath</primary>
</indexterm>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry id="envsubst">
<term><command>envsubst</command></term>
<listitem>
<para>Substitutes environment variables in shell format strings</para>
<indexterm zone="ch-system-gettext envsubst">
<primary sortas="b-envsubst">envsubst</primary>
</indexterm>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry id="gettext">
<term><command>gettext</command></term>
<listitem>
<para>Translates a natural language message into the user's language
by looking up the translation in a message catalog</para>
<indexterm zone="ch-system-gettext gettext">
<primary sortas="b-gettext">gettext</primary>
</indexterm>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry id="gettext.sh">
<term><command>gettext.sh</command></term>
<listitem>
<para>Primarily serves as a shell function library for gettext</para>
<indexterm zone="ch-system-gettext gettext.sh">
<primary sortas="b-gettext.sh">gettext.sh</primary>
</indexterm>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry id="gettextize">
<term><command>gettextize</command></term>
<listitem>
<para>Copies all standard Gettext files into the given top-level
directory of a package to begin internationalizing it</para>
<indexterm zone="ch-system-gettext gettextize">
<primary sortas="b-gettextize">gettextize</primary>
</indexterm>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry id="hostname-gettext">
<term><command>hostname</command></term>
<listitem>
<para>Displays a network hostname in various forms</para>
<indexterm zone="ch-system-gettext hostname-gettext">
<primary sortas="b-hostname-gettext">hostname</primary>
</indexterm>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry id="msgattrib">
<term><command>msgattrib</command></term>
<listitem>
<para>Filters the messages of a translation catalog according to their
attributes and manipulates the attributes</para>
<indexterm zone="ch-system-gettext msgattrib">
<primary sortas="b-msgattrib">msgattrib</primary>
</indexterm>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry id="msgcat">
<term><command>msgcat</command></term>
<listitem>
<para>Concatenates and merges the given
<filename class="extension">.po</filename> files</para>
<indexterm zone="ch-system-gettext msgcat">
<primary sortas="b-msgcat">msgcat</primary>
</indexterm>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry id="msgcmp">
<term><command>msgcmp</command></term>
<listitem>
<para>Compares two <filename class="extension">.po</filename>
files to check that both contain the same set of msgid strings</para>
<indexterm zone="ch-system-gettext msgcmp">
<primary sortas="b-msgcmp">msgcmp</primary>
</indexterm>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry id="msgcomm">
<term><command>msgcomm</command></term>
<listitem>
<para>Finds the messages that are common to to the given
<filename class="extension">.po</filename> files</para>
<indexterm zone="ch-system-gettext msgcomm">
<primary sortas="b-msgcomm">msgcomm</primary>
</indexterm>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry id="msgconv">
<term><command>msgconv</command></term>
<listitem>
<para>Converts a translation catalog to a different character
encoding</para>
<indexterm zone="ch-system-gettext msgconv">
<primary sortas="b-msgconv">msgconv</primary>
</indexterm>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry id="msgen">
<term><command>msgen</command></term>
<listitem>
<para>Creates an English translation catalog</para>
<indexterm zone="ch-system-gettext msgen">
<primary sortas="b-msgen">msgen</primary>
</indexterm>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry id="msgexec">
<term><command>msgexec</command></term>
<listitem>
<para>Applies a command to all translations of a translation
catalog</para>
<indexterm zone="ch-system-gettext msgexec">
<primary sortas="b-msgexec">msgexec</primary>
</indexterm>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry id="msgfilter">
<term><command>msgfilter</command></term>
<listitem>
<para>Applies a filter to all translations of a translation
catalog</para>
<indexterm zone="ch-system-gettext msgfilter">
<primary sortas="b-msgfilter">msgfilter</primary>
</indexterm>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry id="msgfmt">
<term><command>msgfmt</command></term>
<listitem>
<para>Generates a binary message catalog from a translation
catalog</para>
<indexterm zone="ch-system-gettext msgfmt">
<primary sortas="b-msgfmt">msgfmt</primary>
</indexterm>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry id="msggrep">
<term><command>msggrep</command></term>
<listitem>
<para>Extracts all messages of a translation catalog that match a
given pattern or belong to some given source files</para>
<indexterm zone="ch-system-gettext msggrep">
<primary sortas="b-msggrep">msggrep</primary>
</indexterm>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry id="msginit">
<term><command>msginit</command></term>
<listitem>
<para>Creates a new <filename class="extension">.po</filename> file,
initializing the meta information with values from the user's
environment</para>
<indexterm zone="ch-system-gettext msginit">
<primary sortas="b-msginit">msginit</primary>
</indexterm>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry id="msgmerge">
<term><command>msgmerge</command></term>
<listitem>
<para>Combines two raw translations into a single file</para>
<indexterm zone="ch-system-gettext msgmerge">
<primary sortas="b-msgmerge">msgmerge</primary>
</indexterm>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry id="msgunfmt">
<term><command>msgunfmt</command></term>
<listitem>
<para>Decompiles a binary message catalog into raw translation
text</para>
<indexterm zone="ch-system-gettext msgunfmt">
<primary sortas="b-msgunfmt">msgunfmt</primary>
</indexterm>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry id="msguniq">
<term><command>msguniq</command></term>
<listitem>
<para>Unifies duplicate translations in a translation catalog</para>
<indexterm zone="ch-system-gettext msguniq">
<primary sortas="b-msguniq">msguniq</primary>
</indexterm>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry id="ngettext">
<term><command>ngettext</command></term>
<listitem>
<para>Displays native language translations of a textual message whose
grammatical form depends on a number</para>
<indexterm zone="ch-system-gettext ngettext">
<primary sortas="b-ngettext">ngettext</primary>
</indexterm>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry id="recode-sr-latin">
<term><command>recode-sr-latin</command></term>
<listitem>
<para>Recodes Serbian text from Cyrillic to Latin script</para>
<indexterm zone="ch-system-gettext recode-sr-latin">
<primary sortas="b-recode-sr-latin">recode-sr-latin</primary>
</indexterm>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry id="xgettext">
<term><command>xgettext</command></term>
<listitem>
<para>Extracts the translatable message lines from the given source
files to make the first translation template</para>
<indexterm zone="ch-system-gettext xgettext">
<primary sortas="b-xgettext">xgettext</primary>
</indexterm>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry id="libasprintf">
<term><filename class="libraryfile">libasprintf</filename></term>
<listitem>
<para>defines the <emphasis>autosprintf</emphasis> class, which makes
C formatted output routines usable in C++ programs, for use with the
<emphasis><string></emphasis> strings and the
<emphasis><iostream></emphasis> streams</para>
<indexterm zone="ch-system-gettext libasprintf">
<primary sortas="c-libasprintf">libasprintf</primary>
</indexterm>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry id="libgettextlib">
<term><filename class="libraryfile">libgettextlib</filename></term>
<listitem>
<para>a private library containing common routines used by the
various Gettext programs; these are not intended for general use</para>
<indexterm zone="ch-system-gettext libgettextlib">
<primary sortas="c-libgettextlib">libgettextlib</primary>
</indexterm>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry id="libgettextpo">
<term><filename class="libraryfile">libgettextpo</filename></term>
<listitem>
<para>Used to write specialized programs that process
<filename class="extension">.po</filename> files; this library is
used when the standard applications shipped with Gettext (such as
<command>msgcomm</command>, <command>msgcmp</command>,
<command>msgattrib</command>, and <command>msgen</command>) will
not suffice</para>
<indexterm zone="ch-system-gettext libgettextpo">
<primary sortas="c-libgettextpo">libgettextpo</primary>
</indexterm>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry id="libgettextsrc">
<term><filename class="libraryfile">libgettextsrc</filename></term>
<listitem>
<para>A private library containing common routines used by the
various Gettext programs; these are not intended for general use</para>
<indexterm zone="ch-system-gettext libgettextsrc">
<primary sortas="c-libgettextsrc">libgettextsrc</primary>
</indexterm>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry id="preloadable_libintl.so">
<term><filename class="libraryfile">preloadable_libintl</filename></term>
<listitem>
<para>A library, intended to be used by LD_PRELOAD that assists
<filename class="libraryfile">libintl</filename> in logging
untranslated messages.</para>
<indexterm zone="ch-system-gettext preloadable_libintl.so">
<primary sortas="c-preloadable_libintl.so">preloadable_libintl</primary>
</indexterm>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</sect2>
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