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Version 0.21 - July 2020
* Programming languages support:
- Shell:
o xgettext now recognizes and ignores 'env' invocations and environment
variable assignments in front of commands.
- Java:
o xgettext now recognizes format strings in the Formatter syntax. They
are marked as 'java-printf-format' in POT and PO files.
o xgettext now recognizes text blocks as string literals.
- JavaScript:
xgettext parses JSX expressions more reliably.
- Ruby:
o xgettext now supports Ruby.
o 'msgfmt -c' now verifies the syntax of translations of Ruby format
strings.
* Runtime behaviour:
- On native Windows platforms, the directory that contains the message
catalogs may now contain arbitrary Unicode characters. To make use of
this feature, use the new function 'wbindtextdomain' instead of
'bindtextdomain'. It allows to pass a directory name in wchar_t[] encoding.
Note: 'wbindtextdomain' exists only on native Windows platforms.
* Improvements for translators:
- When msgfmt writes a MO file, it now does so in such a way that processes
that are currently using an older copy of the MO file will not crash.
* Libtextstyle:
- Added support for emitting hyperlinks.
- New API for doing formatted output.
- The example programs support the NO_COLOR environment variable.
Version 0.20.2 - April 2020
* Improvements for maintainers:
- A dependency bug in po/Makefile.in.in has been fixed.
* Programming languages support:
- Shell:
o The programs 'gettext', 'ngettext', when invoked with option -e, now
expand '\\' and octal escape sequences, instead of swallowing them.
(Bug present since the beginning.)
o xgettext now recognizes 'gettext' program invocations with the '-e'
option, such as
gettext -e 'some\nstring\n'
- Python:
xgettext now assumes a Python source file is in UTF-8 encoding by default,
as stated in PEP 3120.
- Desktop Entry:
The value of the 'Icon' property is no longer extracted into the POT file
by xgettext. The documentation explains how to localize icons.
* Runtime behaviour:
- The interpretation of the language preferences on macOS has been improved,
especially in the case where a system locale does not exist for the
combination of the selected primary language and the selected territory.
- Fixed a multithread-safety bug on Cygwin and native Windows.
* Libtextstyle:
- Fixed a number of bugs (by upgrading libcroco to version 0.6.13).
Version 0.20.1 - May 2019
* Important bug fix:
- Fixed a wrong shared library versioning of libintl.so.
Version 0.20 - May 2019
* Support for reproducible builds:
- msgfmt now eliminates the POT-Creation-Date header field from .mo files.
* Improvements for translators:
- update-po target in Makefile.in.in now uses msgmerge --previous.
* Improvements for maintainers:
- msgmerge now has an option --for-msgfmt, that produces a PO file meant
for use by msgfmt only. This option saves processing time, in particular
by omitting fuzzy matching that is not useful in this situation.
- The .pot file in a 'po' directory is now erased by "make maintainer-clean".
- It is now possible to override xgettext options from the po/Makefile.in.in
through options in XGETTEXT_OPTIONS (declared in po/Makevars).
- The --intl option of the gettextize program (deprecated since 2010) is
no longer available. Instead of including the intl sources in your package,
we suggest making the libintl library an optional prerequisite of your
package. This will simplify the build system of your package.
- Accordingly, the Autoconf macro AM_GNU_GETTEXT_INTL_SUBDIR is gone as well.
* Programming languages support:
- C, C++:
xgettext now supports strings in u8"..." syntax, as specified in C11
and C++11.
- C, C++:
xgettext now supports 'p'/'P' exponent markers in number tokens, as
specified in C99 and C++17.
- C++:
xgettext now supports underscores in number tokens.
- C++:
xgettext now supports single-quotes in number tokens, as specified in
C++14.
- Shell:
o The programs 'gettext', 'ngettext' now support a --context argument.
o gettext.sh contains new function eval_pgettext and eval_npgettext
for producing translations of messages with context.
- Java:
o xgettext now supports UTF-8 encoded .properties files (a new feature
of Java 9).
o The build system and tools now support Java 9, 10, and 11. On the
other hand, support for old versions of Java (Java 5 and older,
GCJ 4.2.x and older) has been dropped.
- Perl:
o Native support for context functions (pgettext, dpgettext, dcpgettext,
npgettext, dnpgettext, dcnpgettext).
o better detection of question mark and slash as operators (as opposed
to regular expression delimiters).
- Scheme:
xgettext now parses the syntax for specialized byte vectors (#u8(...),
#vu8(...), etc.) correctly.
- Pascal:
xgettext can now extract strings from .rsj files, produced by the
Free Pascal compiler version 3.0.0 or newer.
- Vala:
xgettext now parses escape sequences in strings more accurately.
- JavaScript:
xgettext now parses template literals correctly.
* Runtime behaviour:
- The interpretation of the language preferences on macOS has been fixed.
- Per-thread locales are now also supported on Solaris 11.4.
- The replacements for the printf()/fprintf()/... functions that are
provided through <libintl.h> on native Windows and NetBSD are now POSIX
compliant. There is no conflict any more between these replacements
and other possible replacements provided by gnulib or mingw.
* Libtextstyle:
- This package installs a new library 'libtextstyle', together with a new
header file <textstyle.h>. It is a library for styling text output sent
to a console or terminal emulator.
Packagers: please see the suggested packaging hints in the file PACKAGING.
Version 0.19.8 - June 2016
* Support for reproducible builds:
- msgfmt now produces little-endian .mo files by default.
* Programming languages support:
- XML:
xgettext and msgfmt now look for .its files in directories
supplied through the GETTEXTDATADIRS or XDG_DATA_DIRS environment
variable.
- JavaScript:
xgettext and msgfmt now recognize numbered arguments in format
strings.
* Portability:
- Improve OS/2 kLIBC support.
- Fix libintl compilation issue with pre-C99 compilers. It was a
regression since 0.19.5.
- The AM_GNU_GETTEXT Autoconf macro can now detect musl-libc's
gettext as a compatible implementation.
Version 0.19.7 - December 2015
* Programming languages support:
- XML:
xgettext can now load custom string extraction rules supplied by
consumer projects. The rules are written in XML, utilizing the
Internationalization Tag Set (ITS) standard. All the existing
XML-based language scanners (Glade, GSettings, and AppData) are
rewritten using ITS. In addition, msgfmt now has --xml option to
merge translations back to the original XML document.
* Portability:
- Improve OS/2 kLIBC support (still not complete)
- Remove dependency on expat
Version 0.19.6 - September 2015
* Programming languages support:
- AppData:
xgettext now supports AppData file format, used by software center
applications (e.g., GNOME Software) to describe installable
applications.
* A new macro AM_GNU_GETTEXT_REQUIRE_VERSION can be used to indicate
autopoint to pull the latest available infrastructure, instead of
the exact version specified with AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION. When
AM_GNU_GETTEXT_REQUIRE_VERSION is used, AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION is
ignored.
* po/Makefile.in.in can now insert the file $(DOMAIN).pot-header to
$(DOMAIN).pot, instead of the standard header comments.
* Bug fixes:
- Fix mishandling of gettext version numbers for minor releases, in
po-mode.el and gettextize.
- Fix build with --enable-relocatable.
Version 0.19.5 - July 2015
* xgettext now has a feature to perform syntax checks on msgid, which
could enforce common styles of translatable strings, such as to
prefer Unicode characters to the corresponding ASCII characters.
They can be enabled with --check option or special "xgettext: "
comment in the source code. By default, no syntax checks are
enabled.
* msgfilter and msgexec now have an option --newline, which appends a
newline character to filter input and trims it from the filter
output. This would allow filter programs to be more POSIX friendly.
* The base Unicode standard is now updated to 8.0.0. This
particularly improves "\N{...}" notation handling of xgettext for
Perl and Python.
* msginit is now capable of generating "Plural-Forms:" from Unicode
CLDR. This feature is still experimental, but you can try it by
setting the GETTEXTCLDRDIR environment variable pointing to the
directory where the CLDR archive is extracted. The actual
conversion is done by a helper program 'cldr-plural', which can be
used as a generic converter and evaluator of CLDR plural forms.
* Programming languages support:
- C++ with KDE: xgettext and msgfmt can now recognize KUIT (KDE User
Interface Text) markup. See the documentation section "KUIT
Format Strings" for more info.
- C++ with KDE: xgettext now recognizes all default KDE keywords.
This removes the need for a long list of --keyword and --flag
options to perform a reasonable extraction.
* Bug fixes:
- xgettext C++11 raw string recognition is now stricter and don't
accept unbalanced delimiters.
- Suppress baseless warnings which msgfmt emits when processing a
.desktop file.
- xgettext line wrapping behaviour is now consistent between comment
lines and non-comment lines.
- Fix msgfilter-7 test failure on some platforms.
- Fix VPATH build.
Version 0.19.4 - December 2014
* The --keyword option of xgettext now accepts same argument number
for both singular and plural forms.
* Programming languages support:
- C#: xgettext now properly handles Unicode characters encoded with
surrogate pairs.
- C/C++: xgettext now recognizes ISO/IEC 9899:2011 string literals
prefixed by R, u8, u8R, u, uR, U, UR, L, or LR.
- Shell: xgettext now properly recognizes Bash ANSI-C quoting ($'...').
* Bug fixes:
- Fix integer overflow when reading certain MO files with msgunfmt.
- Avoid invalid memory access in various cases. In particular, when
the same argument number is specified for singular/plural
arguments, and when checking Lisp and Scheme format strings.
* Portability:
- Building on Mac OS X 10.10 and AIX 7.1 is now supported.
Version 0.19.3 - October 2014
* Bug fixes:
- Fix xgettext mishandling of octal character escapes in C.
- Fix autopoint infinite recursion with certain configure.ac.
* The po/Makevars file has a new field MSGINIT_OPTIONS, that can be
used to adjust msginit's operation. This is particularly useful for
controlling line wrapping behavior together with MSGMERGE_OPTIONS
and XGETTEXT_OPTIONS.
* Portability:
- Building on Solaris 10 and 11 with Solaris Studio compiler is now
fixed.
Version 0.19.2 - July 2014
* Bug fixes:
- Fix xgettext crash in parsing empty string literals in C and Vala.
- ChangeLog file is added back to the gettext infrastructure. It was
mistakenly removed in 0.19.
- Autoconf macro trace in autopoint now works again with Autoconf 2.68
or earlier. It was a regression in 0.19.
Version 0.19.1 - June 2014
* Programming languages support:
- Desktop Entry:
msgfmt now always reads the po/LINGUAS file, regardless of whether
the LINGUAS environment variable is set. The variable can now be
used to restrict the languages list read from the po/LINGUAS file.
- Vala:
Bug fix in xgettext handling of "//" in string literals. This was
a regression after the C-99 Unicode escape support.
* The po/Makevars.template file now contains the newly added variables.
* msgfmt now treats errors in the PO file header as non-fatal. Since
0.19 msgfmt started to abort on the fatal errors, but some
translation systems are still not ready to supply valid headers.
* Future backward-incompatibilities:
- In future Gettext versions, msgfmt will treat header errors as
fatal and terminate the command execution.
Version 0.19 - June 2014
* Programming languages support:
- Desktop Entry:
xgettext and msgfmt now support .desktop files, used by desktop
applications, as input and output.
- GSettings:
xgettext now supports GSettings schema file format used by GNOME
applications.
- JavaScript:
xgettext now recognizes E4X (ECMA-357) constructs.
- PHP:
Single and double quotes around heredoc markers are now recognized.
- Python:
The acceptable format specifiers in the braced-syntax format
strings are now limited to the Standard Format Specifiers, to
reasonably avoid false-positives.
- Scheme:
The gettext shorthand form _"abc", used by GIMP script-fu, is now
recognized by xgettext.
- C and Vala:
xgettext now recognizes C99-style Unicode character escapes.
* The --add-location option of msgattrib, msgcat, msgcomm, msgconv,
msgen, msgfilter, msggrep, msgmerge, msguniq, and xgettext commands
now takes an optional argument 'never', 'full', or 'file', to
control the format of "#: ..." comments.
* msgfmt now has --source option to keep generated .java file when
running in Java mode.
* msgattrib now has --empty option that sets msgstr to empty when
clearing fuzzy flag.
* msgexec and msgfilter pass the plural information to subprocess
through the environment variable MSG{EXEC,FILTER}_MSGID_PLURAL and
MSG{EXEC,FILTER}_PLURAL_FORM.
* New built-in filters 'quot' and 'boldquot' have been added to
msgfilter. These filters convert Latin quotation marks ('...',
"...") into Unicode quotation marks (for example, U+2018) if
possible, similar to the sed commands used in po/Rules-quot and
po/Rules-boldquot.
* The po/Makevars file has a couple of new options PO_DEPENDS_ON_POT
and DIST_DEPENDS_ON_UPDATE_PO, that can be used to adjust the
behavior of updating PO files on demand.
* xgettext now strips prefixed string before the comment tag. This is
useful to support C-style comment like this:
/*
* TRANSLATORS: first line
* second line
*/
In this example, the extracted comment does not contain "* " at the
beginning of each line.
* libgettextpo library:
- Memory leak fixes in the PO file parser.
* Documentation:
- A complete example showing the use of GNU gettext in a GNOME 3
application has been added.
Version 0.18.3 - July 2013
* Runtime behaviour:
On Mac OS X systems, the setlocale() function now properly
invalidates loaded message catalogs when a locale has been set.
* Programming languages support:
- C++:
The gnu::autosprintf class now provides an assignment operator.
- Glade:
xgettext now supports GtkBuider file format used by Glade 3.
xgettext now also extracts contexts (msgctxt) from Glade 2 and
GtkBuider files.
- JavaScript:
xgettext now partially supports JavaScript. Since the current
JavaScript specification (ECMA-262) does not define the standard
set of formatting methods nor translation functions, the
implementation supports only a limited set of formatting methods
and translation functions commonly used in Gjs and other popular
JavaScript implemenations and libraries.
- Lua:
xgettext now supports Lua, using Ľubomír Remák's lua-gettext.
- Python:
xgettext and msgfmt's format string checking now recognize Python
format string in braced syntax (PEP 3101). xgettext now also
supports explicit string concatenation with '+' and handles
platform dependent line terminators (LF/CR/CRLF) transparently.
- Tcl:
Bug fix in xgettext Unicode escape handling.
- Vala:
xgettext now supports Vala.
* msgattrib now has --previous option to keep previous msgid when
making messages fuzzy, similar to msgmerge --previous.
* msgfmt now checks PO file headers more strictly with less
false-positives.
* 'gettextize' now checks macro directories specified with
AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIRS in configure.ac.
* Portability:
- msginit now does not require GNU sed.
- The Makefile rule for generating en@quot and en@boldquot now uses
@SED@ variable instead of hard-coded 'sed' command to allow users
to supply GNU sed.
* Future backward-incompatibilities:
- In future Gettext versions, the files installed by 'gettextize'
will require Automake 1.10 or later. This will improve the
compatibility of user projects with newer Automake versions.
Version 0.18.2 - December 2012
* xgettext now understands the block comment syntax of Guile 2.0.
* libgettextpo library:
- The initial msgstr of a new message is now "", not NULL.
- Bug fixes in the functions po_message_is_range, po_file_check_all,
po_message_check_all.
* Installation options:
The configure options --with-xz and --with-bzip2 can be used to specify
alternate compression methods for the archive used by the 'autopoint'
program. These options, together with --with-git, allow to trade
dependencies against installed package size. --with-xz has the highest
compression rate, followed by --with-git, followed by --with-bzip2.
* Autoconf macros:
- The autoconf macros installed by 'gettextize' now work with the
forthcoming Automake 1.14 and require Autoconf version 2.60 or
newer.
* Portability:
- Building on MacOS X 10.7, Cygwin 1.7.10, and newer 64-bit mingw is
now supported.
Version 0.18.1 - June 2010
* msggrep: A '$' anchor in a regular expression now also matches the end of
the string, even if it does not end in a newline.
* Dependencies:
The libraries and programs are now linked with libunistring if this library
is already installed.
* Installation options:
The configure option --with-cvs is deprecated. The 'autopoint' program will
now use the 'git' program by default to compress its archive. If the
configure option --without-git is specified, 'autopoint' will not rely on
'git', but will instead rely on a locally installed a 3 MB large archive.
Version 0.18 - May 2010
* Runtime behaviour:
- On MacOS X and Windows systems, <libintl.h> now extends setlocale() and
newlocale() so that their determination of the default locale considers
the choice the user has made in the system control panels.
- On MacOS X systems, the gettext()/dgettext()/... functions now respect the
locale of the current thread, if a thread-specific locale has been set.
* PO file format:
There is a new field 'Language' in the header entry. It denotes the language
code (plus optional country code) for the PO file. This field can be used
by automated tools, such as spell checkers. It is expected to be more
reliable than looking at the file name or at the 'Language-Team' field in
the header entry.
msgmerge, msgcat, msgen have a new option --lang that allows to specify
this field. Additionally, msgmerge fills in this new field by looking at
the 'Language-Team' field (if the --lang option is not given).
* xgettext and PO file format:
For messages with plural forms, programmers can inform the translators
about the range of possible values of the numeric argument, like this:
/* xgettext: range: 0..15 */
This information 'range: 0..15' is stored in the PO file as a flag attached
to the message. Translators can produce better translations when they know
that the numeric argument is small.
* Colorized PO files:
msgattrib, msgcomm, msgconv, msgen, msgfilter, msggrep, msginit, msgmerge,
msgunfmt, msguniq, xgettext now have options --color and --style, like msgcat
has since version 0.17.
* msgmerge is up to 10 times faster when the PO and POT files are large.
This speedup was contributed by Ralf Wildenhues.
* msgcmp has a new option -N/--no-fuzzy-matching, like msgmerge has since
version 0.12.
* msgfilter now sets environment variables during the invocation of the
filter, indicating the msgid and location of the messge being processed.
* xgettext now can extract plural forms from Qt 4 programs. The recommended
xgettext command-line options for this case are:
--qt --keyword=tr:1,1t --keyword=tr:1,2c,2t --keyword=tr:1,1,2c,3t
* xgettext --language=GCC-source now recognizes also the format strings
used in the Fortran front-end of the GCC compiler, and marks them as
'gfc-internal-format'.
* autopoint can now be used to update several PO directories all together.
* PO mode changes:
- PO files with plural entries are now correctly handled.
- Editing a message with previous msgid (in comments) removes these
comments. Contributed by Noritada Kobayashi.
* The po/Makevars file has a new field MSGMERGE_OPTIONS, that can be used
to adjust msgmerge's operation.
* The use of the macro AM_GNU_GETTEXT without 'external' argument and the
--intl option of the gettextize program are deprecated and will be removed
in the next release. Instead of including the intl sources in your package,
we suggest making the libintl library an (optional) prerequisite of your
package.
* Updated the meaning of 'gcc-internal-format' to match GCC 4.3.
* Installation options:
The configure options --without-cvs and --with-git can be used to specify
whether 'autopoint' will use the 'cvs' program, or the 'git' program, or
none at all. These options allow to trade dependencies against installed
package size: If --without-cvs is specified and --with-git is not specified,
'autopoint' will not rely on 'cvs' or 'git', but will instead rely on a
locally installed a 3 MB large archive.
* Portability:
- The msgfilter program now also works on native Woe32 platforms.
- Compiled C# message catalogs now also work with 'mono' versions from 2009
or newer.
Version 0.17 - November 2007
* License:
The gettext related programs and tools are now licensed under the GPL
version 3, instead of the GPL version 2. The libintl library continues
to be licensed under LGPL.
* PO file format:
The Project-Id-Version field in the header entry may now already be filled
in the POT file. In this case, the translators don't need to fill it in.
xgettext has new options --package-name and --package-version that allow
to specify the package name and version from a Makefile.
* Colorized PO files:
The msgcat program has new options --color and --style that produce a
colorized PO file output, where keywords, strings, comments, or format
directives can be highlighted. See the documentation section
"Highlighting parts of PO files" for more info.
* gettextize now has a --po-dir option that allows several PO directories to
be updated all together.
* Programming languages support:
- Contexts (msgctxt) are now also supported for Java and C#.
- C# with Qt: The support for Qt format strings has been updated for Qt 4.
- C++ with KDE:
xgettext has a new option --kde that triggers the recognition and marking
of KDE 4 format strings.
* Autoconf macros:
- A new macro AM_XGETTEXT_OPTION can be used as an alternative to modifying
po/Makevars.
* libgettextpo library:
- New functions are available for querying the list of supported format
types.
- The functions po_message_comments and po_message_extracted_comments
return a multiline string where each line no longer starts with a redundant
space. The leading space in every comment line is now stripped while
reading the PO file.
- Conversely, when you pass a multiline string to the function
po_message_set_comments or po_message_set_extracted_comments, you normally
don't pass a space at the beginning of each line, because such spaces are
no longer trimmed during output.
* Documentation:
- The "Users" chapter has been completely rewritten.
- New section "Highlighting parts of PO files".
- A complete example showing the use of GNU gettext in Java with the Qt/Jambi
GUI toolkit has been added.
Version 0.16.1 - November 2006
* Bug fix in the gettext.m4 autoconf macros.
Version 0.16 - October 2006
* Interoperability with automake-1.10.
* msgmerge has a new option --previous that has the effect of saving the
previous msgid of message when making them fuzzy. These previous msgids are
stored in the resulting PO file, using a pseudo-comment syntax like this:
#, fuzzy
#| msgid "too many arguments"
msgid "too few arguments"
msgstr "trop d'arguments"
The translator then only needs to compare the previous and the current
msgid ("too many arguments" and "too few arguments"), and infer which
parts of the translation she needs to change.
msgattrib has a new option --clear-previous that removes these #| lines.
* msgmerge is faster now on CPUs with multiple execution units, if compiled
with GCC 4.2 or newer.
* msgcmp now ignores fuzzy and untranslated messages in the PO file.
Previously it considered fuzzy and untranslated messages the same way as
translated messages, which was hardly useful. The previous behaviour can
be obtained through the options --use-fuzzy --use-untranslated.
* gettextize, when invoked without --intl option, now installs only the .m4
files that are needed: gettext.m4, iconv.m4, lib-ld.m4, lib-link.m4,
lib-prefix.m4, nls.m4, po.m4, progtest.m4.
* gettextize no longer creates symbolic links by default; it makes file copies
instead. The option --copy is removed. You can get back the flawed
symlinking behaviour by specifying the --symlink option.
* Autoconf macros:
- The gettext autoconf macros now require autoconf 2.52 or newer and
GNU m4 1.4.5 or newer.
- A new autoconf macro AM_GNU_GETTEXT_INTL_SUBDIR is added. It allows to
specify the presence of an intl/ subdirectory outside the AM_GNU_GETTEXT
invocation.
- A new autoconf macro AM_GNU_GETTEXT_NEED is added. It allows to specify
the requirements relating to the GNU gettext implementation outside the
AM_GNU_GETTEXT invocation.
* The libgettextpo library no longer exports symbols that could clash with
symbols of the application that uses it.
* Vastly improved French translations. Thanks to Christophe Combelles.
Version 0.15 - July 2006
* GUI program support:
- PO files can now contain messages constrained to a certain context.
Most often such a context is a menu, dialog or panel identification.
The syntax in the PO file is
msgctxt "context"
msgid "original"
msgstr "translation"
- The xgettext program can be told through the --keyword flag which
function/macro argument has the role of a context. It also supports
the GNOME glib convention to specify the context and original string
in the same string literal: "context|original".
- The (non-public) include file gettext.h defines macros pgettext, dpgettext
etc. that take a context argument.
For more information, see the node "Contexts" in the manual.
* msgfmt's format string checking is now stricter in the presence of plural
forms. For example, in German, with nplurals=2 and plural=(n != 1),
the translation
#, c-format
msgid "%d fatal error"
msgid_plural "%d fatal errors"
msgstr[0] "ein fataler Fehler"
msgstr[1] "fatale Fehler"
was earlier considered valid and now gives an error when "msgfmt --check"
is used:
"number of format specifications in 'msgid' and 'msgstr[1]' does not match"
* msggrep has a new option -v/--invert-match that acts like grep's -v option.
* msggrep has a new option -X/--extracted-comment that allows to search for a
pattern in the extracted comments.
* xgettext's --keyword option now allows to specify an extracted comment on the
command line, rather than in program's source code.
* msgmerge is much faster now, when using a large compendium.
* A new program recode-sr-latin is provided, that converts Serbian text from
the Cyrillic script to the Latin script.
The command "msgfilter recode-sr-latin" can be used to convert a Serbian
Cyrillic PO file (sr.po) to a Serbian Latin PO file (sr@latin.po).
* Programming languages support:
- C++ with Boost:
xgettext has a new option --boost that triggers the recognition and marking
of boost::format strings.
- Python:
xgettext now recognizes the source encoding from a "coding:" comment
among the first two lines. The default encoding is now ASCII, no longer
ISO-8859-1.
* libgettextpo library:
- The error handler type passed to po_file_read(), po_file_write(),
po_message_check_format() has changed.
This is an incompatible change: Programs using the library *must* update
their code.
Binary compatibility is guaranteed, however.
* The 'mkinstalldirs' shell script is no longer needed and no longer installed
by gettextize.
* Portability:
- Building on mingw is now supported.
- Building shared libraries (--enable-shared) on Cygwin and mingw is now
supported.
* Interoperability with expat version 2.0.0.
* Documentation:
A complete example showing the use of GNU gettext with the wxWidgets GUI
toolkit has been added.
* The gettext autoconf macros now assume 'aclocal' from automake 1.8 or newer.
Version 0.14.6 - June 2006
* Updated the meaning of 'gcc-internal-format' to match GCC 4.1.
Version 0.14.5 - May 2005
* Updated the meaning of 'gcc-internal-format' to match GCC 4.0.
Version 0.14.4 - April 2005
* The gettext autoconf macros will now work with the forthcoming g++ 4.0.
* Fix improved detection of the locale on MacOS X.
Version 0.14.3 - March 2005
* Usability improvements in gettextize and autopoint.
* Programming languages support:
- Scheme:
Use the GNU guile definition of format strings.
Version 0.14.2 - February 2005
* Improved detection of the locale on MacOS X.
* The gettext autoconf macros now require autoconf 2.50 or newer.
* Programming languages support:
- Scheme:
xgettext now also supports Scheme. Best used with guile 1.7 or newer.
* msggrep is much faster now.
* libgettextpo library:
- New functions for constructing PO files in memory and writing them to
files.
- The error handling is now customizable.
* Documentation:
- New tutorial document, written by Gora Mohanty.
- New FAQ document.
- New documentation sections: Scheme, Release Management.
* Bug fixes for Turkish and Estonian locales.
* Security fixes.
Version 0.14 - January 2004
* Programming languages support:
- C#:
xgettext now also supports C#.
New library: GNU.Gettext.dll contains the runtime for using GNU gettext
message catalogs in C#.
msgfmt can create (and msgunfmt can dump) message catalogs for C#.
* Special feature for Farsi (Persian): Translators can insert an 'I' flag
into numeric format directives in format strings. Its effect is that, on
glibc systems, the number is generated with the locale dependent set of
special digits instead of the usual ASCII digits.
* Documentation:
- New documentation section: C#.
- Complete examples illustrating the use of gettext in C# (in text mode and
in Forms applications) have been added.
- New documentation section: Preparing Library Sources.
* Special advice for Norwegian users: The language code for Norwegian
bokmål changed from 'no' to 'nb' recently (in 2003). During the transition
period, while some message catalogs for this language are installed under
'nb' and some older ones under 'no', it's recommended for Norwegian users to
set the LANGUAGE environment variable to 'nb:no' so that both newer and
older translations are used.
Version 0.13.1 - December 2003
* Bug fixes in the testsuite and in the examples.
Version 0.13 - November 2003
* Programming languages support:
- Shell:
xgettext now also supports shell scripts. It recognizes invocations of
the programs 'gettext', 'ngettext', the functions 'eval_gettext',
'eval_ngettext', as well as the deprecated GNU bash builtin syntax $"...".
New function library:
gettext.sh - shell functions for internationalized shell scripts.
New program:
envsubst - substitutes environment variables in shell format strings.
- Perl:
xgettext now also supports Perl.
- PHP:
"xgettext --language=PHP" now supports the plural handling functions
ngettext, dngettext, dcngettext (introduced in PHP 4.2.0).
- ObjectiveC:
"xgettext --language=ObjectiveC" now supports the @"..." string syntax,
the NSLocalizedString function and the ObjectiveC specific format strings.
All the tools that manipulate PO files can work with .strings files
as well, if given the --stringtable-input and/or --stringtable-output
option. To create a .strings file from a PO or POT file, use
"msgcat --stringtable-output". To create a PO or POT file from a
.strings file, use "xgettext".
- GCC-source:
xgettext's --language option now supports the value "GCC-source". This
is like --language=C, except that in this mode, xgettext recognizes the
special kind of format strings used in the GCC sources and marks them
as 'gcc-internal-format'.
- C++ with Qt:
xgettext has a new option --qt that triggers the recognition and marking
of Qt format strings.
msgfmt has a new option --qt that generates binary message catalogs in
Qt's .qm format.
* Data formats support:
- Glade:
xgettext now also supports Glade version 2.
* xgettext has a more reliable detection of format strings. It now
recognizes format strings depending on their position, for example as the
second argument of fprintf(), regardless whether the literal string contains
format directives. This behaviour can be customized through the --flag
option.
* libgettextpo library:
- New functions for testing the obsolete/fuzzy/*-format flags of a message.
- New convenience functions for extracting and analyzing the header entry.
* Portability:
- C format strings with positions, as they arise when a translator needs to
reorder a sentence, are now supported on all platforms. On those few
platforms (NetBSD and Woe32) for which the native printf()/fprintf()/...
functions don't support such format strings, replacements are provided
through <libintl.h>.
- A new configuration option --disable-libasprintf allows to build all of
gettext except libasprintf; this is necessary on platforms for which
libtool cannot create shared libraries with C++ code.
* Documentation:
- Complete examples illustrating the use of gettext, including program
sources, Makefile and autoconf infrastructure, have been added. They
cover the following programming languages:
C (text mode, GNOME)
C++ (text mode, Qt, KDE, GNOME)
ObjectiveC (text mode, GNUstep, GNOME)
Shell (text mode)
Python (text mode)
Lisp (text mode)
librep (text mode)
Smalltalk (text mode)
Java (text mode, AWT, Swing)
awk (text mode)
Pascal (text mode)
YCP (libyui)
Tcl (text mode, Tk)
Perl (text mode)
PHP (text mode)
Version 0.12.1 - May 2003
* Bug fixes.
Version 0.12 - May 2003
* The gettext package is now separated into two subpackages:
- gettext-runtime: Runtime libraries and programs.
- gettext-tools: Tools and documentation for developers and translators.
The 'gettext-runtime' package is very small and should be installed on every
system that has users who desire to use internationalization. Whereas the
'gettext-tools' package is only for developers and translators.
* The po/Makevars file has a new field MSGID_BUGS_ADDRESS, which program
maintainers should fill in, to help feedback from the translators to the
program maintainers.
xgettext, accordingly, has a new option --msgid-bugs-address.
* Programming languages support:
- C++
A new C++ class, called gnu::autosprintf, makes it possible to use
C format strings in C++. This is needed for proper internationalization
of C++ programs.
- Java
All the tools that manipulate PO files can work with .properties files
as well, if given the --properties-input and/or --properties-output
option. To create a .properties file from a PO or POT file, use
"msgcat --properties-output".
- Smalltalk
xgettext now also supports Smalltalk.
- PHP
xgettext now also supports PHP.
- Python
"xgettext --language=Python" now supports the plural handling functions
ngettext, dngettext, ungettext (introduced in Python 2.3).
- A new autoconf macro AM_PO_SUBDIRS is added. It is like AM_GNU_GETTEXT,
for packages written in other languages than C/C++.
* A new library libgettextpo, with public header file "gettext-po.h",
provides functions for reading PO files into memory. It is useful for
applying PO files to areas not covered by the GNU gettext programs.
New documentation section:
- Writing your own programs that process PO files.
* New documentation sections:
- Prioritizing messages: How to determine which messages to translate first.
- Names: Marking Proper Names for Translation.
* xgettext now supports msgid strings in other encodings than ASCII.
xgettext has a new option --from-code that specifies the encoding of the
source files. The resulting POT files are UTF-8 encoded.
* Tools for translators:
- msgmerge has a new option -N/--no-fuzzy-matching that inhibits the fuzzy
search for untranslated messages.
- msgattrib has new options --only-file and --ignore-file that cause the
specified attribute manipulation to apply to selected messages only.