GNU gettext - Summary
This software is part of the GNU Project.
This project hosts the source repository for the GNU gettext package (including the libintl library) and its home page.
The source of the GNU gettext package is available through the "Git" link above, or directly through
$ git clone git://git.savannah.gnu.org/gettext.git
Three mailing lists are available:
- bug-gettext @ gnu.org -- for discussing bugs and features of the GNU gettext software.
- translation-i18n @ lists.sourceforge.net -- for discussing translator tools and translation methodologies in general, including but not limited to GNU gettext,
- coordinator @ translationproject.org -- the Free Translation Project that manages the submissions of message catalogs for many GNU packages. Please visit http://translationproject.org/ first.
Archives for the first two mailing lists are found at
- http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gettext/ (starting at 2011-03-20), http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/ (up to 2011-03-19)
- https://sourceforge.net/p/translation/mailman/translation-i18n/
Registration Date: Wed 29 Aug 2001 06:27:34 PM UTC
License: GNU General Public License v3 or later
Development Status: 5 - Production/Stable
posted by haible, Tue 19 Sep 2023 08:35:35 AM UTC
Download from https://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/gettext/gettext-0.22.1.tar.gz
This is a bug-fix release.
New in this release:
- Bug fixes:
- The libintl shared library now exports again some symbols that were accidentally missing.
- xgettext's processing of large Perl files may have led to errors.
- "xgettext --join-existing" could encounter errors.
- Portability:
- Building on Android is now supported.
posted by haible, Sat 17 Jun 2023 01:41:30 PM UTC
Download from https://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/gettext/gettext-0.22.tar.gz
New in this release:
- PO file format:
- When a #: line contains references to file names that contain spaces, these file names are surrounded by Unicode characters U+2068 and U+2069. This makes it possible to parse such references correctly.
posted by haible, Tue 14 Apr 2020 12:13:08 PM UTC
Download from https://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/gettext/gettext-0.20.2.tar.gz
This is a bug-fix release.
New in this release:
- Improvements for maintainers:
- A dependency bug in po/Makefile.in.in has been fixed.
- Programming languages support:
posted by haible, Thu 09 May 2019 02:15:21 AM UTC
Download from https://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/gettext/gettext-0.20.tar.gz
New in this release:
- Support for reproducible builds:
- msgfmt now eliminates the POT-Creation-Date header field from .mo files.
- Improvements for translators:

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