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Re: GNU gettext features now supported by Sun in Solaris
From: |
Bruno Haible |
Subject: |
Re: GNU gettext features now supported by Sun in Solaris |
Date: |
Tue, 12 Nov 2002 21:32:19 +0100 (CET) |
Paul Eggert writes:
> This isn't a bug report, but I thought you'd like to know that Sun
> patch 113415-01, dated November 7, improved internationalization
> support in Solaris 8 by adding support for GNU gettext.
... and they started implementing that in March 2001.
> GNU users
> know that GNU gettext has been better than Solaris gettext for quite
> some time, but it's nice to see some recognition of this by Sun.
Kudos to Ulrich!
> PS. The bad news is that Sun apparently reimplemented a subset GNU
> msgfmt from scratch rather than using GNU code; I don't know why they
> did this.
Maybe because they don't like the GPL? They prefer GNOME (LGPL) to KDE
(GPL).
Bruno