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<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.4//EN" "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.4/docbookx.dtd" [
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<!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../general.ent">
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<!ENTITY % patches-entities SYSTEM "../patches.ent">
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%general-entities;
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%patches-entities;
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]>
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<sect1 id="ch-system-gettext" role="wrap">
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<title>Gettext-&gettext-version;</title>
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<?dbhtml filename="gettext.html"?>
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<indexterm zone="ch-system-gettext"><primary sortas="a-Gettext">Gettext</primary></indexterm>
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<sect2 role="package"><title/>
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<para>The Gettext package contains utilities for internationalization and
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localization. These allow programs to be compiled with NLS, enabling them
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to output messages in the user's native language.</para>
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<segmentedlist>
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<segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
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<segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle>
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<seglistitem><seg>1.2 SBU</seg><seg>65.1 MB</seg></seglistitem>
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</segmentedlist>
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<segmentedlist>
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<segtitle>&dependencies;</segtitle>
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<seglistitem><seg>Bash, Binutils, Bison, Coreutils,
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Diffutils, Gawk, GCC, Glibc, Grep, Make, and Sed</seg></seglistitem>
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</segmentedlist>
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</sect2>
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<sect2 role="installation">
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<title>Installation of Gettext</title>
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<para>Prepare Gettext for compilation:</para>
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<screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr</userinput></screen>
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<para>Compile the package:</para>
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<screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
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<para>To test the results, issue:
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<userinput>make check</userinput>. This takes a very long time, around
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7 SBUs.</para>
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<para>Install the package:</para>
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<screen><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
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</sect2>
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<sect2 id="contents-gettext" role="content"><title>Contents of Gettext</title>
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<segmentedlist>
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<segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
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<segtitle>Installed libraries</segtitle>
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<seglistitem><seg>autopoint, config.charset, config.rpath, envsubst, gettext,
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gettextize, hostname, msgattrib, msgcat, msgcmp, msgcomm, msgconv, msgen,
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msgexec, msgfilter, msgfmt, msggrep, msginit, msgmerge, msgunfmt, msguniq,
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ngettext, and xgettext</seg>
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<seg>libasprintf.[a,so], libgettextlib.so, libgettextpo.[a,so], and libgettextsrc.so</seg></seglistitem>
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</segmentedlist>
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<variablelist><bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
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<?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
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<?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
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<varlistentry id="autopoint">
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<term><command>autopoint</command></term>
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<listitem>
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<para>Copies standard Gettext infrastructure files into a source package</para>
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<indexterm zone="ch-system-gettext autopoint"><primary sortas="b-autopoint">autopoint</primary></indexterm>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry id="config.charset">
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<term><command>config.charset</command></term>
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<listitem>
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<para>Outputs a system-dependent table of character encoding aliases</para>
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<indexterm zone="ch-system-gettext config.charset"><primary sortas="b-config.charset">config.charset</primary></indexterm>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry id="config.rpath">
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<term><command>config.rpath</command></term>
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<listitem>
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<para>Outputs a system-dependent set of variables, describing how to set the
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runtime search path of shared libraries in an executable</para>
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<indexterm zone="ch-system-gettext config.rpath"><primary sortas="b-config.rpath">config.rpath</primary></indexterm>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry id="envsubst">
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<term><command>envsubst</command></term>
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<listitem>
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<para>Substitutes environment variables in shell format strings</para>
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<indexterm zone="ch-system-gettext envsubst"><primary sortas="b-envsubst">envsubst</primary></indexterm>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry id="gettext">
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<term><command>gettext</command></term>
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<listitem>
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<para>Translates a natural language message into the user's language
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by looking up the translation in a message catalog</para>
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<indexterm zone="ch-system-gettext gettext"><primary sortas="b-gettext">gettext</primary></indexterm>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry id="gettextize">
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<term><command>gettextize</command></term>
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<listitem>
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<para>Copies all standard Gettext files into the given top-level
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directory of a package to begin internationalizing it</para>
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<indexterm zone="ch-system-gettext gettextize"><primary sortas="b-gettextize">gettextize</primary></indexterm>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry id="hostname-gettext">
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<term><command>hostname</command></term>
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<listitem>
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<para>Displays a network hostname in various forms</para>
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<indexterm zone="ch-system-gettext hostname-gettext"><primary sortas="b-hostname-gettext">hostname</primary></indexterm>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry id="msgattrib">
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<term><command>msgattrib</command></term>
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<listitem>
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<para>Filters the messages of a translation catalog according to their
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attributes and manipulates the attributes</para>
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<indexterm zone="ch-system-gettext msgattrib"><primary sortas="b-msgattrib">msgattrib</primary></indexterm>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry id="msgcat">
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<term><command>msgcat</command></term>
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<listitem>
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<para>Concatenates and merges the given <filename class="extension">.po</filename> files</para>
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<indexterm zone="ch-system-gettext msgcat"><primary sortas="b-msgcat">msgcat</primary></indexterm>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry id="msgcmp">
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<term><command>msgcmp</command></term>
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<listitem>
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<para>Compares two <filename class="extension">.po</filename>
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files to check that both contain the same set of msgid strings</para>
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<indexterm zone="ch-system-gettext msgcmp"><primary sortas="b-msgcmp">msgcmp</primary></indexterm>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry id="msgcomm">
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<term><command>msgcomm</command></term>
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<listitem>
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<para>Finds the messages that are common to
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to the given <filename class="extension">.po</filename> files</para>
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<indexterm zone="ch-system-gettext msgcomm"><primary sortas="b-msgcomm">msgcomm</primary></indexterm>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry id="msgconv">
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<term><command>msgconv</command></term>
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<listitem>
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<para>Converts a translation catalog to a different character encoding</para>
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<indexterm zone="ch-system-gettext msgconv"><primary sortas="b-msgconv">msgconv</primary></indexterm>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry id="msgen">
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<term><command>msgen</command></term>
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<listitem>
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<para>Creates an English translation catalog</para>
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<indexterm zone="ch-system-gettext msgen"><primary sortas="b-msgen">msgen</primary></indexterm>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry id="msgexec">
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<term><command>msgexec</command></term>
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<listitem>
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<para>Applies a command to all translations of a translation catalog</para>
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<indexterm zone="ch-system-gettext msgexec"><primary sortas="b-msgexec">msgexec</primary></indexterm>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry id="msgfilter">
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<term><command>msgfilter</command></term>
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<listitem>
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<para>Applies a filter to all translations of a translation catalog</para>
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<indexterm zone="ch-system-gettext msgfilter"><primary sortas="b-msgfilter">msgfilter</primary></indexterm>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry id="msgfmt">
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<term><command>msgfmt</command></term>
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<listitem>
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<para>Generates a binary message catalog from from a translation catalog</para>
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<indexterm zone="ch-system-gettext msgfmt"><primary sortas="b-msgfmt">msgfmt</primary></indexterm>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry id="msggrep">
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<term><command>msggrep</command></term>
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<listitem>
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<para>Extracts all messages of a translation catalog that match a
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given pattern or belong to some given source files</para>
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<indexterm zone="ch-system-gettext msggrep"><primary sortas="b-msggrep">msggrep</primary></indexterm>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry id="msginit">
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<term><command>msginit</command></term>
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<listitem>
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<para>Creates a new <filename class="extension">.po</filename> file, initializing the meta
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information with values from the user's environment</para>
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<indexterm zone="ch-system-gettext msginit"><primary sortas="b-msginit">msginit</primary></indexterm>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry id="msgmerge">
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<term><command>msgmerge</command></term>
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<listitem>
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<para>Combines two raw translations into a single file</para>
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<indexterm zone="ch-system-gettext msgmerge"><primary sortas="b-msgmerge">msgmerge</primary></indexterm>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry id="msgunfmt">
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<term><command>msgunfmt</command></term>
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<listitem>
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<para>Decompiles a binary message catalog into raw translation text</para>
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<indexterm zone="ch-system-gettext msgunfmt"><primary sortas="b-msgunfmt">msgunfmt</primary></indexterm>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry id="msguniq">
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<term><command>msguniq</command></term>
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<listitem>
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<para>Unifies duplicate translations in a translation catalog</para>
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<indexterm zone="ch-system-gettext msguniq"><primary sortas="b-msguniq">msguniq</primary></indexterm>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry id="ngettext">
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<term><command>ngettext</command></term>
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<listitem>
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<para>Displays native language translations of a textual message whose
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grammatical form depends on a number</para>
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<indexterm zone="ch-system-gettext ngettext"><primary sortas="b-ngettext">ngettext</primary></indexterm>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry id="xgettext">
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<term><command>xgettext</command></term>
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<listitem>
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<para>Extracts the translatable message lines from the given source
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files to make the first translation template</para>
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<indexterm zone="ch-system-gettext xgettext"><primary sortas="b-xgettext">xgettext</primary></indexterm>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry id="libasprintf">
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<term><filename class="libraryfile">libasprintf</filename></term>
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<listitem>
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<para>defines the <emphasis>autosprintf</emphasis> class, which makes
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C formatted output routines usable in C++ programs, for use with the
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<emphasis><string></emphasis> strings and the
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<emphasis><iostream></emphasis> streams</para>
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<indexterm zone="ch-system-gettext libasprintf"><primary sortas="c-libasprintf">libasprintf</primary></indexterm>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry id="libgettextlib">
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<term><filename class="libraryfile">libgettextlib</filename></term>
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<listitem>
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<para>a private library containing common routines used by the various Gettext
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programs; these are not intended for general use</para>
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<indexterm zone="ch-system-gettext libgettextlib"><primary sortas="c-libgettextlib">libgettextlib</primary></indexterm>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry id="libgettextpo">
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<term><filename class="libraryfile">libgettextpo</filename></term>
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<listitem>
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<para>Used to write specialized programs that process <filename
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class="extension">.po</filename> files; this library is used when the
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standard applications shipped with Gettext (such as
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<command>msgcomm</command>, <command>msgcmp</command>,
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<command>msgattrib</command>, and <command>msgen</command>) will not
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suffice</para>
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<indexterm zone="ch-system-gettext libgettextpo"><primary sortas="c-libgettextpo">libgettextpo</primary></indexterm>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry id="libgettextsrc">
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<term><filename class="libraryfile">libgettextsrc</filename></term>
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<listitem>
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<para>A private library containing common routines used by the various Gettext
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programs; these are not intended for general use</para>
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<indexterm zone="ch-system-gettext libgettextsrc"><primary sortas="c-libgettextsrc">libgettextsrc</primary></indexterm>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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</variablelist>
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</sect2>
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</sect1>
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