gencat(1p) — Linux manual page

PROLOG | NAME | SYNOPSIS | DESCRIPTION | OPTIONS | OPERANDS | STDIN | INPUT FILES | ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES | ASYNCHRONOUS EVENTS | STDOUT | STDERR | OUTPUT FILES | EXTENDED DESCRIPTION | EXIT STATUS | CONSEQUENCES OF ERRORS | APPLICATION USAGE | EXAMPLES | RATIONALE | FUTURE DIRECTIONS | SEE ALSO | COPYRIGHT

GENCAT(1P)              POSIX Programmer's Manual             GENCAT(1P)

PROLOG         top

       This manual page is part of the POSIX Programmer's Manual.  The
       Linux implementation of this interface may differ (consult the
       corresponding Linux manual page for details of Linux behavior),
       or the interface may not be implemented on Linux.

NAME         top

       gencat — generate a formatted message catalog

SYNOPSIS         top

       gencat catfile msgfile...

DESCRIPTION         top

       The gencat utility shall merge the message text source file
       msgfile into a formatted message catalog catfile.  The file
       catfile shall be created if it does not already exist. If catfile
       does exist, its messages shall be included in the new catfile.
       If set and message numbers collide, the new message text defined
       in msgfile shall replace the old message text currently contained
       in catfile.

OPTIONS         top

       None.

OPERANDS         top

       The following operands shall be supported:

       catfile   A pathname of the formatted message catalog. If '-' is
                 specified, standard output shall be used. The format of
                 the message catalog produced is unspecified.

       msgfile   A pathname of a message text source file. If '-' is
                 specified for an instance of msgfile, standard input
                 shall be used. The format of message text source files
                 is defined in the EXTENDED DESCRIPTION section.

STDIN         top

       The standard input shall not be used unless a msgfile operand is
       specified as '-'.

INPUT FILES         top

       The input files shall be text files.

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES         top

       The following environment variables shall affect the execution of
       gencat:

       LANG      Provide a default value for the internationalization
                 variables that are unset or null. (See the Base
                 Definitions volume of POSIX.1‐2017, Section 8.2,
                 Internationalization Variables for the precedence of
                 internationalization variables used to determine the
                 values of locale categories.)

       LC_ALL    If set to a non-empty string value, override the values
                 of all the other internationalization variables.

       LC_CTYPE  Determine the locale for the interpretation of
                 sequences of bytes of text data as characters (for
                 example, single-byte as opposed to multi-byte
                 characters in arguments and input files).

       LC_MESSAGES
                 Determine the locale that should be used to affect the
                 format and contents of diagnostic messages written to
                 standard error.

       NLSPATH   Determine the location of message catalogs for the
                 processing of LC_MESSAGES.

ASYNCHRONOUS EVENTS         top

       Default.

STDOUT         top

       The standard output shall not be used unless the catfile operand
       is specified as '-'.

STDERR         top

       The standard error shall be used only for diagnostic messages.

OUTPUT FILES         top

       None.

EXTENDED DESCRIPTION         top

       The content of a message text file shall be in the format defined
       as follows. Note that the fields of a message text source line
       are separated by a single <blank> character. Any other <blank>
       characters are considered to be part of the subsequent field.

       $set n comment
                 This line specifies the set identifier of the following
                 messages until the next $set or end-of-file appears.
                 The n denotes the set identifier, which is defined as a
                 number in the range [1, {NL_SETMAX}] (see the
                 <limits.h> header defined in the Base Definitions
                 volume of POSIX.1‐2017). The application shall ensure
                 that set identifiers are presented in ascending order
                 within a single source file, but need not be
                 contiguous. Any string following the set identifier
                 shall be treated as a comment. If no $set directive is
                 specified in a message text source file, all messages
                 shall be located in an implementation-defined default
                 message set NL_SETD (see the <nl_types.h> header
                 defined in the Base Definitions volume of
                 POSIX.1‐2017).

       $delset n comment
                 This line deletes message set n from an existing
                 message catalog. The n denotes the set number [1,
                 {NL_SETMAX}].  Any string following the set number
                 shall be treated as a comment.

       $ comment A line beginning with '$' followed by a <blank> shall
                 be treated as a comment.

       m message-text
                 The m denotes the message identifier, which is defined
                 as a number in the range [1, {NL_MSGMAX}] (see the
                 <limits.h> header). The message-text shall be stored in
                 the message catalog with the set identifier specified
                 by the last $set directive, and with message identifier
                 m.  If the message-text is empty, and a <blank> field
                 separator is present, an empty string shall be stored
                 in the message catalog. If a message source line has a
                 message number, but neither a field separator nor
                 message-text, the existing message with that number (if
                 any) shall be deleted from the catalog. The application
                 shall ensure that message identifiers are in ascending
                 order within a single set, but need not be contiguous.
                 The application shall ensure that the length of
                 message-text is in the range [0, {NL_TEXTMAX}] (see the
                 <limits.h> header).

       $quote n  This line specifies an optional quote character c,
                 which can be used to surround message-text so that
                 trailing <space> characters or null (empty) messages
                 are visible in a message source line. By default, or if
                 an empty $quote directive is supplied, no quoting of
                 message-text shall be recognized.

       Empty lines in a message text source file shall be ignored. The
       effects of lines starting with any character other than those
       defined above are implementation-defined.

       Text strings can contain the special characters and escape
       sequences defined in the following table:
                  ┌───────────────────┬────────┬──────────┐
                  │    Description    Symbol Sequence │
                  ├───────────────────┼────────┼──────────┤
                  │ <newline>         │ NL(LF) │ \n       │
                  │ Horizontal-tab    │ HT     │ \t       │
                  │ <vertical-tab>    │ VT     │ \v       │
                  │ <backspace>       │ BS     │ \b       │
                  │ <carriage-return> │ CR     │ \r       │
                  │ <form-feed>       │ FF     │ \f       │
                  │ Backslash         │ \      │ \\       │
                  │ Bit pattern       │ ddd    │ \ddd     │
                  └───────────────────┴────────┴──────────┘

       The escape sequence "\ddd" consists of <backslash> followed by
       one, two, or three octal digits, which shall be taken to specify
       the value of the desired character. If the character following a
       <backslash> is not one of those specified, the <backslash> shall
       be ignored.

       A <backslash> followed by a <newline> is also used to continue a
       string on the following line. Thus, the following two lines
       describe a single message string:

           1 This line continues \
           to the next line

       which shall be equivalent to:

           1 This line continues to the next line

EXIT STATUS         top

       The following exit values shall be returned:

        0    Successful completion.

       >0    An error occurred.

CONSEQUENCES OF ERRORS         top

       Default.

       The following sections are informative.

APPLICATION USAGE         top

       Message catalogs produced by gencat are binary encoded, meaning
       that their portability cannot be guaranteed between different
       types of machine. Thus, just as C programs need to be recompiled
       for each type of machine, so message catalogs must be recreated
       via gencat.

EXAMPLES         top

       None.

RATIONALE         top

       None.

FUTURE DIRECTIONS         top

       None.

SEE ALSO         top

       iconv(1p)

       The Base Definitions volume of POSIX.1‐2017, Chapter 8,
       Environment Variables, limits.h(0p), nl_types.h(0p)

COPYRIGHT         top

       Portions of this text are reprinted and reproduced in electronic
       form from IEEE Std 1003.1-2017, Standard for Information
       Technology -- Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX), The
       Open Group Base Specifications Issue 7, 2018 Edition, Copyright
       (C) 2018 by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics
       Engineers, Inc and The Open Group.  In the event of any
       discrepancy between this version and the original IEEE and The
       Open Group Standard, the original IEEE and The Open Group
       Standard is the referee document. The original Standard can be
       obtained online at http://www.opengroup.org/unix/online.html .

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