tldr/pages/common/gettext.md

# gettext

> Get string translations.
> More information: <https://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/html_node/gettext-Invocation.html>.

- Get the translation of a string or output a default string if it doesn't exist:

`LANGUAGE={{locale}} gettext {{msgid}} {{default_value}}`

- Display help:

`gettext {{[-h|--help]}}`
gettext, msginit, msgmerge: add page; msgfmt, xgettext: edit page (#15912) Co-authored-by: Sebastiaan Speck <12570668+sebastiaanspeck@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: Juri Dispan <juri.dispan@posteo.net> 2025-03-11 06:50:50 +02:00			`# gettext`

			`> Get string translations.`
			`> More information: <https://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/html_node/gettext-Invocation.html>.`

			`- Get the translation of a string or output a default string if it doesn't exist:`

			`LANGUAGE={{locale}} gettext {{msgid}} {{default_value}}`
*: add help example (#15981) 2025-03-26 00:36:41 +02:00
			`- Display help:`

			`gettext {{[-h\|--help]}}`