1Hi folks, 2 3gettext-0.10 is now avaialble at 4 5 prep.ai.mit.edu:/pub/gnu. 6 7It is a feature release which hopefully can be compiled on all 8interesting system. This package is especially interesting for 9authors and maintainers who want to internationalize their packages, 10but in the presence of GNU sharutils-4.2 it is also useful for the 11common man. 12 13 14For those how don't know about GNU gettext it provides native language 15support in the messages a program prints. GNU gettext provides the 16needed library and tool support to enable the programmers to extend 17their programs and maintain the message catalogs. 18 19It can work in two ways: using the possibly existing catalog handling 20functions of the local system or use the library it provides itself. 21Because there are already a lot of goodies which are only found in GNU 22gettext's library I would always suggest to use the provided 23implementation. 24 25The library code itself will be used in many GNU packages. So 26installing this package and reporting possible problems will also help 27to prevent errors in other packages. 28 29Besides the library, GNU gettext contains programs to maintain message 30catalogs and to produce the needed binary representation. Among the 31maintenance tools is the Emacs PO mode, written by Franc,ois Pinard. 32This mode helps translators to handle the translation files. 33 34For further information, consult the `README' file. The `ABOUT-NLS' 35file gives information about the current state of the 36internationalization effort inside the GNU project. `INSTALL' 37contains the usual information about installation. 38 39In case you find a bug or have problems installing the package, send a 40report to 41 bug-gnu-utils@prep.ai.mi.edu 42 43I want to thanks all those unselfish people helping me to develop 44this software. A list can be found in the `THANKS' file. In case 45I omitted somebody, I beg you not to believe it was intended. Write 46to me, so I may include you in future versions. 47 48 49The next version will not contains many new things. The Makefiles 50will be adjusted to use the new programs but mainly the documentation 51will adjusted. The result will be called gettext-1.0. 52 53 54An excerpt from NEWS: 55 56Version 0.10 - December 1995, by Ulrich Drepper 57 58* implement --shell-script option for gettext program 59 60* implement object-oriented, lazy message handling :-) 61 Consult the manual for more/any information 62 63* implement locale name aliasing, similar to the one used 64 in the X Window System 65 66* support for GNU gettext sources in central place to support 67 use in development environments of other projects 68 69* implement CEN syntax for environment variable values 70 71* msgcmp program to find matches in two .po files 72 73* programs now have exit status != 0 if errors occurred 74 75* libintl.a is now selfcontained and can be used without context in 76 other projects 77 78* gettextize now automatically runs config.status 79 80* swedish message catalog 81 82* new options for xgettext: -D/--directory to change in specified directory 83 before processing the input files and -f/--files-from to specify file from 84 which the names of the input files are read. 85 The later option in necessary for large projects such as GNU C Library. 86 87* new programs msgmerge and msgunfmt by Peter Miller. The code of the other 88 programs is now also much cleaner. 89