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| 2 | <!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.3//EN" "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.3/docbookx.dtd" [
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| 3 | <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../general.ent">
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| 4 | %general-entities;
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| 5 | ]>
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[3be4d97] | 6 | <sect1 id="ch-system-gettext" xreflabel="Gettext">
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[673b0d8] | 7 | <title>Gettext-&gettext-version;</title>
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| 8 | <?dbhtml filename="gettext.html"?>
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| 9 |
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| 10 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-gettext"><primary sortas="a-Gettext">Gettext</primary></indexterm>
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[6370fa6] | 11 |
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[5888299] | 12 | <para>The Gettext package contains utilities for internationalization and
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| 13 | localization. These allow programs to be compiled with Native Language Support
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| 14 | (NLS), enabling them to output messages in the user's native language.</para>
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| 15 |
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[673b0d8] | 16 | <screen>&buildtime; 0.5 SBU
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| 17 | &diskspace; 55 MB</screen>
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| 18 |
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| 19 | <para>Gettext installation depends on: Bash, Binutils, Bison, Coreutils,
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| 20 | Diffutils, Gawk, GCC, Glibc, Grep, Make, Sed.</para>
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[3554fa3a] | 21 |
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[73aedd1d] | 22 |
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| 23 |
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| 24 | <sect2>
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| 25 | <title>Installation of Gettext</title>
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| 26 |
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| 27 | <para>Prepare Gettext for compilation:</para>
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| 28 |
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| 29 | <screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr</userinput></screen>
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| 30 |
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| 31 | <para>Compile the package:</para>
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| 32 |
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| 33 | <screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
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| 34 |
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[673b0d8] | 35 | <para>To test the results, issue:
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[8a5f906] | 36 | <userinput>make check</userinput>. This takes a very long time, around
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[c3dc67c] | 37 | 7 SBUs.</para>
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[73aedd1d] | 38 |
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[673b0d8] | 39 | <para>Now install the package:</para>
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[73aedd1d] | 40 |
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| 41 | <screen><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
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| 42 |
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| 43 | </sect2>
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[6370fa6] | 44 |
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[5888299] | 45 |
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[673b0d8] | 46 | <sect2 id="contents-gettext"><title>Contents of Gettext</title>
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| 47 |
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| 48 | <para><emphasis>Installed programs</emphasis>: autopoint, config.charset,
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| 49 | config.rpath, envsubst, gettext, gettextize, hostname, msgattrib, msgcat,
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| 50 | msgcmp, msgcomm, msgconv, msgen, msgexec, msgfilter, msgfmt, msggrep, msginit,
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| 51 | msgmerge, msgunfmt, msguniq, ngettext, project-id, team-address, trigger,
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| 52 | urlget, user-email and xgettext</para>
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| 53 |
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| 54 | <para><emphasis>Installed libraries</emphasis>: libasprintf[a,so],
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| 55 | libgettextlib[a,so], libgettextpo[a,so] and libgettextsrc[a,so]</para>
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| 56 |
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| 57 | </sect2>
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| 58 |
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| 59 | <sect2><title>Short descriptions</title>
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| 60 |
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| 61 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-gettext autopoint"><primary sortas="b-autopoint">autopoint</primary></indexterm>
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| 62 | <para id="autopoint"><command>autopoint</command> copies standard gettext infrastructure
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| 63 | files into a source package.</para>
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| 64 |
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| 65 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-gettext config.charset"><primary sortas="b-config.charset">config.charset</primary></indexterm>
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| 66 | <para id="config.charset"><command>config.charset</command> outputs a system-dependent table of
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| 67 | character encoding aliases.</para>
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| 68 |
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| 69 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-gettext config.rpath"><primary sortas="b-config.rpath">config.rpath</primary></indexterm>
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| 70 | <para id="config.rpath"><command>config.rpath</command> outputs a system-dependent set of
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| 71 | variables, describing how to set the runtime search path of shared libraries in an
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| 72 | executable.</para>
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| 73 |
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| 74 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-gettext envsubst"><primary sortas="b-envsubst">envsubst</primary></indexterm>
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| 75 | <para id="envsubst"><command>envsubst</command> substitutes environment variables in shell
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| 76 | format strings.</para>
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| 77 |
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| 78 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-gettext gettext"><primary sortas="b-gettext">gettext</primary></indexterm>
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| 79 | <para id="gettext"><command>gettext</command> translates a natural language message into
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| 80 | the user's language, by looking up the translation in a message catalog.</para>
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| 81 |
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| 82 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-gettext gettextize"><primary sortas="b-gettextize">gettextize</primary></indexterm>
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| 83 | <para id="gettextize"><command>gettextize</command> copies all standard Gettext files into
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| 84 | the given top-level directory of a package, to begin inter-nationalizing it.</para>
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| 85 |
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| 86 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-gettext hostname-gettext"><primary sortas="b-hostname-gettext">hostname</primary></indexterm>
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| 87 | <para id="hostname-gettext"><command>hostname</command> displays a network hostname in various
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| 88 | forms.</para>
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| 89 |
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| 90 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-gettext msgattrib"><primary sortas="b-msgattrib">msgattrib</primary></indexterm>
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| 91 | <para id="msgattrib"><command>msgattrib</command> filters the messages of a translation
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| 92 | catalog according to their attributes and manipulates the attributes.</para>
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| 93 |
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| 94 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-gettext msgcat"><primary sortas="b-msgcat">msgcat</primary></indexterm>
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| 95 | <para id="msgcat"><command>msgcat</command> concatenates and merges the given
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| 96 | <filename>.po</filename> files.</para>
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| 97 |
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| 98 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-gettext msgcmp"><primary sortas="b-msgcmp">msgcmp</primary></indexterm>
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| 99 | <para id="msgcmp"><command>msgcmp</command> compares two <filename>.po</filename>
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| 100 | files to check that both contain the same set of msgid strings.</para>
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| 101 |
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| 102 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-gettext msgcomm"><primary sortas="b-msgcomm">msgcomm</primary></indexterm>
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| 103 | <para id="msgcomm"><command>msgcomm</command> finds the messages that are common to
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| 104 | to the given <filename>.po</filename> files.</para>
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| 105 |
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| 106 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-gettext msgconv"><primary sortas="b-msgconv">msgconv</primary></indexterm>
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| 107 | <para id="msgconv"><command>msgconv</command> converts a translation catalog to a
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| 108 | different character encoding.</para>
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[73aedd1d] | 109 |
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[673b0d8] | 110 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-gettext msgen"><primary sortas="b-msgen">msgen</primary></indexterm>
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| 111 | <para id="msgen"><command>msgen</command> creates an English translation catalog.</para>
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| 112 |
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| 113 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-gettext msgexec"><primary sortas="b-msgexec">msgexec</primary></indexterm>
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| 114 | <para id="msgexec"><command>msgexec</command> applies a command to all translations of a
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| 115 | translation catalog.</para>
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| 116 |
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| 117 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-gettext msgfilter"><primary sortas="b-msgfilter">msgfilter</primary></indexterm>
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| 118 | <para id="msgfilter"><command>msgfilter</command> applies a filter to all translations of a
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| 119 | translation catalog.</para>
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| 120 |
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| 121 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-gettext msgfmt"><primary sortas="b-msgfmt">msgfmt</primary></indexterm>
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| 122 | <para id="msgfmt"><command>msgfmt</command> generates a binary message catalog from
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| 123 | from a translation catalog.</para>
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| 124 |
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| 125 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-gettext msggrep"><primary sortas="b-msggrep">msggrep</primary></indexterm>
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| 126 | <para id="msggrep"><command>msggrep</command> extracts all messages of a translation
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| 127 | catalog that match a given pattern or belong to some given source files.</para>
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| 128 |
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| 129 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-gettext msginit"><primary sortas="b-msginit">msginit</primary></indexterm>
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| 130 | <para id="msginit"><command>msginit</command> creates a new <filename>.po</filename>
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| 131 | file, initializing the meta information with values from the user's
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| 132 | environment.</para>
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| 133 |
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| 134 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-gettext msgmerge"><primary sortas="b-msgmerge">msgmerge</primary></indexterm>
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| 135 | <para id="msgmerge"><command>msgmerge</command> combines two raw translations into a
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| 136 | single file.</para>
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| 137 |
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| 138 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-gettext msgunfmt"><primary sortas="b-msgunfmt">msgunfmt</primary></indexterm>
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| 139 | <para id="msgunfmt"><command>msgunfmt</command> decompiles a binary message catalog
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| 140 | into raw translation text.</para>
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| 141 |
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| 142 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-gettext msguniq"><primary sortas="b-msguniq">msguniq</primary></indexterm>
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| 143 | <para id="msguniq"><command>msguniq</command> unifies duplicate translations in a
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| 144 | translation catalog.</para>
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| 145 |
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| 146 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-gettext ngettext"><primary sortas="b-ngettext">ngettext</primary></indexterm>
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| 147 | <para id="ngettext"><command>ngettext</command> displays native language translations of a
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| 148 | textual message whose grammatical form depends on a number.</para>
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| 149 |
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| 150 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-gettext xgettext"><primary sortas="b-xgettext">xgettext</primary></indexterm>
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| 151 | <para id="xgettext"><command>xgettext</command> extracts the translatable message lines
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| 152 | from the given source files, to make the first translation template.</para>
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| 153 |
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| 154 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-gettext libasprintf"><primary sortas="c-libasprintf">libasprintf</primary></indexterm>
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| 155 | <para id="libasprintf"><command>libasprintf</command> defines the autosprintf class, which
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| 156 | makes C formatted output routines usable in C++ programs, for use with the
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| 157 | <string> strings and the <iostream> streams.</para>
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| 158 |
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| 159 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-gettext libgettextlib"><primary sortas="c-libgettextlib">libgettextlib</primary></indexterm>
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| 160 | <para id="libgettextlib"><command>libgettextlib</command> is a private library containing
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| 161 | common routines used by the various gettext programs. They're not meant for
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| 162 | general use.</para>
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| 163 |
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| 164 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-gettext libgettextpo"><primary sortas="c-libgettextpo">libgettextpo</primary></indexterm>
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| 165 | <para id="libgettextpo"><command>libgettextpo</command> is used to write specialized
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| 166 | programs that process PO files. This library is used when the standard
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| 167 | applications shipped with gettext won't suffice (such as msgcomm, msgcmp,
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| 168 | msgattrib and msgen).</para>
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| 169 |
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| 170 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-gettext libgettextsrc"><primary sortas="c-libgettextsrc">libgettextsrc</primary></indexterm>
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| 171 | <para id="libgettextsrc"><command>libgettextsrc</command> is a private library containing
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| 172 | common routines used by the various gettext programs. They're not meant for
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| 173 | general use.</para>
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| 174 |
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| 175 | </sect2>
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| 176 |
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| 177 |
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| 178 |
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| 179 | </sect1>
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