gawk provides facilities for internationalizing awk programs.
These include the functions described in the following list.
The descriptions here are purposely brief.
See Internationalization with gawk,
for the full story.
Optional parameters are enclosed in square brackets ([ ]):
bindtextdomain(directory [, domain]) ¶Set the directory in which
gawk will look for message translation files, in case they
will not or cannot be placed in the “standard” locations
(e.g., during testing).
It returns the directory in which domain is “bound.”
The default domain is the value of TEXTDOMAIN.
If directory is the null string (""), then
bindtextdomain() returns the current binding for the
given domain.
dcgettext(string [, domain [, category] ]) ¶Return the translation of string in
text domain domain for locale category category.
The default value for domain is the current value of TEXTDOMAIN.
The default value for category is "LC_MESSAGES".
dcngettext(string1, string2, number [, domain [, category] ]) ¶Return the plural form used for number of the
translation of string1 and string2 in text domain
domain for locale category category. string1 is the
English singular variant of a message, and string2 is the English plural
variant of the same message.
The default value for domain is the current value of TEXTDOMAIN.
The default value for category is "LC_MESSAGES".