msggen(1) User Commands msggen(1)NAMEmsggen - generate a machine independent formatted message catalog
SYNOPSISmsggen [-fls] catfile [msgfile]
DESCRIPTIONmsggen merges the message text source file msgfile into a machine inde‐
pendent formatted message catalog catfile. The file catfile is created
if it does not already exist. If catfile does exist, its messages are
included in the new catfile. If set and message numbers collide, the
new message text defined in msgfile replaces the old message text cur‐
rently contained in catfile.
Non-ASCII characters must be UTF-8 encoded. iconv(1) can be used to
convert to/from UTF-8.
OPTIONS
The following options are supported:
-f List the printf(3C) format signature for each message in
--format catfile. A format signature is one line containing one
character for each format specification:
c char
d double
D long double
f float
h short
i int
j long long
l long
p void*
s string
t ptrdiff_t
z size_t
? unknown
-l List catfile in UTF-8 msgfile form.
--list
-s Convert the catfile to a message set number and print the
--set number on the standard output.
OPERANDS
The following operands are supported:
catfile Machine independent formatted message catalog file.
msgfile Message text source file.
USAGE
Message text source files are in gencat(1) format, defined as follows.
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. The NL_* constants are defined in one or both
of <limits.h> and <nl_types.h>.
$ comment
A line beginning with a $ followed by a blank character is treated
as a comment.
$delset n comment
This line deletes message set n from an existing message catalog. n
denotes the set number [1, NL_SETMAX]. Any text following the set
number is treated as a comment.
$quote c
This line specifies an optional quote character c, which can be
used to surround message-text so that trailing spaces or empty mes‐
sages are visible in a message source line. By default, or if an
empty $quote directive is supplied, no quoting of message-text is
recognized.
$set n comment
This line specifies the set identifier of the following messages
until the next $set or end-of-file (EOF) appears. n denotes the set
identifier, which is defined as a number in the range [1, NL_SET‐
MAX]. Set numbers need not be contiguous. Any text following the
set identifier is treated as a comment. If no $set directive is
specified in a message text source file, all messages are located
in message set 1.
$translation identification YYYY-MM-DD[,...]
Append translation information to the message catalog header. Only
the newest date for a given identification is retained in the cata‐
log. Multiple translation lines are combined into a single, comma-
separated list.
m message-text
m denotes the message identifier, which is defined as a number in
the range [1, NL_MSGMAX]. The message-text is stored in the message
catalogue with the set identifier specified by the last $set direc‐
tive, and with message identifier m. If the message-text is empty,
and a blank character field separator is present, an empty string
is stored in the message catalogue. 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) is deleted from the cat‐
alogue. Message identifiers need not be contiguous. There are no
message-text length restrictions.
EXIT STATUS
0 Successful completion.
>0 One or more specified jobs does not exist.
EXAMPLES
Example 1 Using msggen
The following example generates a message catalog xxx from the message
file xxx.msg:
example% msggen xxx xxx.msg
AUTHORS
Glenn Fowler, gsf@research.att.com
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
┌─────────────────────────────┬─────────────────────────────┐
│ ATTRIBUTE TYPE │ ATTRIBUTE VALUE │
├─────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────┤
│Availability │developer/astdev │
├─────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────┤
│Interface Stability │Volatile │
└─────────────────────────────┴─────────────────────────────┘
SEE ALSOgencat(1), iconv(1), msgcc(1), printf(3C), attributes(5)SunOS 5.11 9 Oct 2007 msggen(1)
