Re: History of gettext() et al?

From: Thomas Dickey (dickey_at_saltmine.radix.net)
Date: 11/09/03


Date: 9 Nov 2003 17:48:06 GMT

In comp.unix.solaris Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> wrote:

> Thanks to Bruno Haible, the GNU gettext tools these days are much
> better than Solaris's; Sun has pretty much stood still while the GNU
> folks overtook it. I think the GNU API is pretty much a superset of
> Sun's now (e.g., better support for pluralization).

If it were actually a superset, rather than "pretty much", that would be
simple enough to verify by side-by-side comparison.

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Thomas E. Dickey
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